Nairobi Wildlife & Conservation Day Safari

Overview

Step into one of the world's most extraordinary urban wildlife experiences without ever leaving Nairobi. The morning begins at Nairobi National Park — the only game reserve on the planet sharing a fence with a major capital city — where lions, rhinos, buffalos and leopards roam against a dramatic backdrop of high-rise towers and city skyline. Unlike any other park in Africa, here you can photograph a pride of lions with skyscrapers in the distance, a sight that never loses its surreal power. After the game drive, you move into the world of conservation with an emotionally powerful visit to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, where orphaned elephant calves rescued from poaching and drought are raised by devoted keepers. The 11 AM public visiting window is intimate and moving — watch the youngsters splash through their mud bath and accept milk bottles with the enthusiasm only baby elephants can muster. The afternoon takes you to the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife's Giraffe Centre, home to the critically endangered Rothschild giraffe. Feed these magnificent animals from an elevated wooden platform — nose to nose, at eye level. The day concludes with a visit to the Karen Blixen Museum, the colonial farmhouse immortalised in 'Out of Africa', surrounded by the Ngong Hills silhouette.

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