Tour code EXC-NCT

Full-day Nairobi City Tour (Railways museum, Sheldrick Orphanage, Giraffe Manor and the Karen Blixen Museum).

This tour takes you to the Railways Museum where old steam locomotives are exhibited among them the one from which Superintendent John Lyall was taken by a man-eating lion in Tsavo in 1901.

Afterwards, visit this orphanage established in 1977 shortly after the death of Daphne Sheldrick who had pioneered techniques of raising orphaned black rhinos and elephants and reintroducing them back to the wild. Rhinos and elephants are still reared on the site and can be viewed between 11 am and noon.  

Head towards Ngong Hills to a village near Ngong home of the renowned writer, Karen Blixen who lived there between 1914 and 1931.

This suburb of Karen takes its name from Karen Blixen, aka Isak Dinesen, a Danish coffee planter and lady aristocrat who became one of Africa’s most famous writer. Blixen’s subsequent return to Denmark, led to the writing of the definitive tale of European endeavor in Africa ‘Out of Africa’.

Proceed to Giraffe Manor, situated on a 120 acre piece of land is this home of the Rothschild giraffe. It is about 18 km form central Nairobi. Jack Leslie-Melville and his wife Betty bought it and moved five baby endangered Rothschild giraffes in1974.

The original giraffes have subsequently had their own offspring that now live on the property.

Hand feeding the giraffes is quite an experience especially for children and there is a display of information about the giraffes. You will also see and photograph Warthogs that wonder around the Manor gardens.