Elephants, Giraffes and Samosas - oh my!
After a rough night (I woke up around 2:15 a.m. and couldn’t get back to sleep) we departed at 9:00 a.m. to drive back down to Nairobi to visit the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust , which shelters and raises baby elephants. Many have been orphaned due to poaching for ivory (boo, hiss), and a surprising number of them were also found after falling into a well. 2 groups of of approximately 14 baby elephants ranging from 8 months to 3 years made a grand entrance with their handlers and were fed their bottles of milk in front of the 150-200 people along the perimeter of the feeding area. Then the babies got to play in the dirt and mud, with balls and each other. It was awesome, and we could pet them on their sides as they walked by. The goal of the organization is to care for the elephants until they can start to fend for themselves, then reintroduce them back into the wild as long as it takes for them to be adopted into a herd. Big Baby...