Being tired of all the adventures, I wanted to take a day off to rest and relax. But not with my dear Barbara, who is much more resilient than me 🙂 She planned to go to the elephant orphanage in Nairobi. There you can watch young elephants being fed and taking their mud baths. At first I was skeptical because I don’t want to support facilities which keep animals just for our fun, but in the end I had the impression that they take more value in the elephants’ interests.
When we arrived, we soon realized that this is probably the most touristic spot we’ve been so far in Kenya. Many people walked into the area, in which soon also the elephants walked in towards their caretakers. They have a lot of space and their freedom and are just in the small field during the feeding. As the elephants drank their milk and rolled in the mud, one of the keepers explained to us that they are rescued babies and also told us every elephant’s name and its background story. They lost their parents and some of them still have serious injuries. He emphasized that you should not buy stuff from ivory. Apparently this is the reason why some of these little guys are here. Who would’ve thought that you have to tell this to people in 2017…
That’s where our little trip to the elephant orphanage ended. As always: thank you for reading my posts and motivating me to do more 🙂 I am also very interested in your thoughts about facilities like this one. Have you ever visited a similar one (except from Tiergarten Schönbrunn or other zoos) and which impressions have you had?