The Giraffe Center Nairobi is located at Langata, approximately 20 kilometers from the Giraffe Center Nairobi, Kenya. The Giraffe Center is a wonderful and refreshing experience undertaken during hansel travel excursion in Nairobi. Nairobi Giraffe Centre tour gives a completely up close and personal interaction where guests have the opportunity to view giraffes as well as feed them. The centre has rescued, hand-reared and released around 500 orphaned giraffes back into the wild since opening in 1979.

Giraffe Centre Nairobi Tour Price Includes:
* Price per person
* All Park Entry Fees, Service Charge and Taxes
* Pickup from your hotel in Nairobi and drop-off to your hotel
* Visit Giraffe Giraffe Center Nairobi in Langata, Karen District Nairobi, Kenya
* Professional English speaking Hansel travel Driver Guide

Giraffe Center Information
The Giraffe Center Nairobi, AFEW (African Fund for Endangered Wildlife) is located in Langata, just outside Nairobi. The centre has been ostensibly set up as a breeding centre for the endangered Rothschild giraffe, but now operates conservation/education programs for Kenyan school children.

There is good information on giraffes available here, and an elevated feeding platform where visitors meet the resident giraffes face to face. Hand feeding giraffes is an education in itself. You will see, close at hand, how they use their long, prehensile tongues to remove leaves from prickly acacia branches.

The AFEW centre is also home to Giraffe Manor, a beautifully maintained colonial home, now an exclusive guesthouse. The centre’s giraffe population wanders freely through the lush gardens, and pays an occasional visit to the house itself, often pushing their heads through the French Windows to inspect the breakfast table.

The African Fund for Endangered Wildlife Kenya (A.F.E.W Kenya Ltd) also known as the Giraffe Center Nairobi is a non-profit making organization, which was founded by the late Betty and Jock Lesilie Melville in 1979. The late Betty, Jock’s American born wife, had earlier discovered the sad plight of the Rothschild giraffe and there were only 120 left on an 18,000 acre ranch in Western Kenya that was scheduled for sub-division and settlement. The first effort to save this sub-species was to bring two young giraffes to their property in Langata and later Betty founded AFEW USA.

Funds were raised to move five groups to different safe areas in Kenya namely; Lake Nakuru National Park, Mwea National Game Reserve, Ruma National Park and Nasalot Game Reserve. Funds raised via AFEW USA also built the Giraffe Center Nairobi and have bought 60 acres, and is in the process of buying 40 more acres for the Sanctuary.

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