13 Days 12 Nights Kenya Elephant Safari-Gentle Giants Safari

Trip Details

$6055

13 Days 12 Nights Kenya Elephant Safari-Gentle Giants Safari

Number of days:

13

Features

  • Bird Watching
  • Wildlife Safaris
  • Game Drives

Fostering an Elephant

The Orphan’s Project exists through donations from individuals and organisations, particularly support provided via the Trust’s Fostering Programme.The Fostering Program, in partnership with the Kenya Wildlife Service, supports an elephant nursery in Nairobi National Park that was overseen by Late Dr. Dame Daphne Sheldrick who is credited with developing a complex milk formulary, as well as an in-depth understanding of husbandry. The Late Dr. Dame Daphne Sheldrick who passed away in April 2018 at the age of 93. In 1977, Daphne founded the Trust in memory of her husband David, founding warden of one of Africa’s largest parks, Tsavo East National Park in Kenya. It has become a pioneering elephant rescue and rehabilitation program, over time expanding its reach to protect the Black Rhino and other endangered species.
You can foster a baby elephant for yourself or as a gift at a cost of $50 per year. Select ‘your elephant’ online and receive monthly updates and drawings.

What you Need to Know

  • All elephant adoption fees go directly to the care and feeding of the calf.
  • Elephants available for adoption are listed on the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust website, along with their name, detailed biography and place of origin.
  • Sponsors regularly receive photos and updates by e-mail, and are considered lifelong members of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust family.

Click here for more information on fostering. https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/orphans

Safari Itinerary

You will be met by our representative with a signboard “Save the Elephant Safari” or your name. Thereafter you will be transferred to Our Hotel for overnight stay.

Early morning breakfast, and later you will be met and transferred by our representatives to the Giraffe Sanctuary where you get the chance to get eye to eye with the endangered Rothschild Giraffe. At 10 o’clock, we proceed to Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, the famous Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage for a visit.

Between 11 o’clock and 12 o’clock you will have an opportunity to meet the caretakers of the orphanage who will furnish you with detailed information regarding the orphaned elephants currently saved and in the station. This is a great opportunity to take photos of your foster elephant or new additions to the Nairobi orphanage. Here you will learn more about the tremendous conservation efforts and work they do here caring for the elephant orphans. At this point you can make your choice and an elephant will be adopted in your name. Continue on to the Karen Blixen museum for a visit before checking into the lovely Hotel for a one night stay with breakfast included.

In the afternoon you will be met and transferred to the Elephant Orphanage for the private afternoon session from 15:00-1630hrs and another one at 17:00 – 18:00hrs. This session is reserved exclusively for foster parents (The public is not allowed in at this time) and is a perfect time to get you know your elephant a bit better and marvel as they go about their bedtime routine.

After breakfast, at about 7.00 hrs depart to Ithumba Camp in Tsavo East in our 4 wheel drive vehicle. We will try as much as possible to visit the Elephants frequently and increase our presence at the release station. A meeting with the Keepers and to visit the Elephants is planned late afternoon at 1700 hrs. This Camp is specifically self- catering, without a swimming pool and has only simple but nicely furnished rooms with a beautiful outdoor bathroom. Our Chef cook will take care of you with delicious, freshly prepared meals throughout your stay. (self Catering camp)

Spend another 02 nights at Ithumba Camp. Our driver/guide and vehicle will always be at your disposal. The daily visits to the Stockades are also guaranteed.

Popular is the 11.00 am visit and again the 17.00 (5 pm) visit where you can interact actively with your foster elephant that will eventually be released and integrated into the Wild. A number of spectacular and breathtaking wildlife sightings await you during the Safari.(self Catering camp)

After an early morning breakfast, we depart to Sentrim Tsavo to arrive in time for Lunch. We will spend the afternoon discovering the Park with extended game drive and a visit to the forth release station of the Orphaned Elephants.

Enjoy one more day in this magnificent park. Daily visits to the Elephants and unlimited game drives are guaranteed. If time allows, we can undertake an excursion to the famous Lugard Falls on the Galana River where you may leave the vehicle for a while and take a walk to the rapids.

After breakfast you depart to Kibwezi Forest, which is a conservation area where another release station for the Elephants has been set. You will spend the rest of the day in Umani Springs, a beautiful self-catering house managed and run by the Sheldricks. A visit to the new Stockades is planned for in the afternoon. Our chef will prepare lovely, fresh meals for you. You will enjoy your Lunch at the camp.

Accommodation: Umani Springs Camp (self Catering camp)

Today we will have an early morning Sunrise Stockades visit and thereafter a morning breakfast, here we can do morning walks and head to 11a.m mud-bath before we take lunches and spend the rest of the afternoon seister. In the late afternoon we will take a sunset view point to see famous Chyulu Hills National Park which boasts of magnificent scenery. This is a truly magical area of ragged craters, rolling grassland, exotic aromatic plants and cedar forests not forgetting the diverse wildlife.

We will end the day’s activities with one visit to the Stockades before returning to Umani Spring for overnight.

While on your game drives learn more about The Amboseli Trust for Elephants (ATE) Research conducted by ATE over a period of more than four decades in Amboseli has highlighted the long-term conservation and welfare of Africa’s elephants as well as the ethical implications of human needs and pressures. Through scientific research, training and community outreach this knowledge base has helped to ensure the survival of the elephants as well as the Amboseli ecosystem. Witness this extraordinary story in the animals and ecosystems of Amboseli

You will have two full days in Amboseli National Park. You will have a 0630hrs game drive that will offer you the opportunity to catch the glorious snowcapped Mt. Kilimanjaro offering the best photography back drop. You will return to the lodge later for breakfast and time at leisure before an afternoon game drive from 1600hrs until sunset. The animals are mainly found around the swamps. If the weather is clear and there is no low cloud cover, you may see the peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro, which forms a beautiful backdrop to the park. Meals and overnight: Ol Tukai Lodge (Full Board)

After breakfast, depart to Nairobi to arrive in the city afternoon hours. Proceed to the Elephant Orphanage for the last one hour foster parents visit at 1700 hours. Dinner at a local restaurant. (own account) This is a good opportunity for participants to say their “goodbyes” before their international flights. After dinner we transfer you to the Airport for your international flight departing from Nairobi or your accommodation choice in Nairobi.

You will have the day at your own leisure awaiting your flight timing. You will later be picked from the hotel for a drive to the airport for your early afternoon or evening flight back home.

 

Please Note:

Luggage restriction of 15 kilograms per person in soft bags only for local flying-in option. Prices and accommodation is strictly subject to availability at the time of booking.

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