Giraffe Manor
Colonial-era manor where wild Rothschild's giraffes lean through breakfast windows to be hand-fed by guests.
This guide to Giraffe Manor in Nairobi begins in 1974, when Betty and Jock Leslie-Melville bought a collapsing Scottish-style hunting lodge and, within a year, found Betty on her drawing-room floor bottle-feeding an orphaned Rothschild's giraffe calf too wobbly to stand. It follows Daisy from that floor into a bestselling book and a documentary, and into the breeding program the couple built here and at the Giraffe Centre down the road in Langata. Along the way it passes through Karen Blixen's old neighborhood and the near-vanishing of an entire giraffe subspecies. You are standing where that rescue started, breakfast table included.
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