Fairmont Fairways: Kenya

Where The “Game of Kings” meets the “Kings of Game”

ELEPHANT ORPHANAGE & GIRAFFE CENTRE

Before leaving, be sure to visit these two facilities in Nairobi. The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is a world-famous conservation organisation and whilst particularly noted for their Orphans Project with elephants and rhinos, also run anti-poaching, surveillance and sky vet programs. The Elephant Orphanage visit is scheduled around the daily milk feeding time and is delightful if deliberately aimed to tug at the heartstrings and generate “adoptions” and donations to the Trust. No problem with that and more power to them!

Having just returned from interacting with the giraffes on the Maasai Mara, it is a bit of a muted experience seeing them in this centre. However, it’s certainly fun to be this close to such beautiful animals. Again, you are helping an animal charity, in this case, the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife.

Time to go. Allow plenty of time to get to and from Jomo Kenyatta Airport. The traffic can be extremely heavy at times. Best to check with The Norfolk. In addition, security and processes around the airport aren’t the smoothest. Allow plenty of time and avoid stress!

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