From Nairobi: David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage Tour with Hotel Transfers

Visit the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage with an English-speaking driver-guide and included round-trip transfers from Nairobi.

Getting started

Get picked up from your Nairobi hotel or residence for your round-trip transfers in an air-conditioned vehicle. After you meet your expert English-speaking driver-guide, you travel toward the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage. On arrival, your entry for the tour is handled as part of your booking so you can proceed directly toward the viewing session area.

What to expect

David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage

This visit focuses on a scheduled viewing session with orphaned elephant calves at the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage, part of the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust nursery.

Features

• During the viewing session with orphaned elephant calves, you watch keepers bottle-feed the young elephants as they run into the arena for their milk and interact at close range.
• From just a few feet away, you see the elephants enjoy a mud bath, observe their social behaviors, and get insight into how the nursery prepares them for an eventual return to the wild.
• Expert keepers share the rescue story and recovery journey of each calf and explain the Trust’s work in anti-poaching, mobile veterinary units, and habitat preservation across Kenya.
• You have the option on site to support the mission further by “adopting” an orphaned elephant and receiving regular progress updates from the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.
• Your entry for the viewing session at David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage is included in your tour entry fees, while the separate entry donation to the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust of approximately 20 USD or 2,000 KES is paid directly by you.
• Throughout the outing, your English-speaking driver-guide provides commentary during the drive, and you travel with bottled mineral water during transit in the air-conditioned vehicle.