Giraffe Manor
Giraffe Manor is one of Nairobi's most iconic buildings and is one of the most exclusive places to stay in the city. Located in the leafy suburbs of Langata, Giraffe Manor offers a unique opportunity to meet the eleven resident giraffe, all of whom are the endangered Rothschild species. The giraffe love to approach the sun room and are always keen to be hand fed! Exclusive, spacious and elegant, it is the only place in the world that giraffe can be fed from the second floor bedroom window, over the lunch table, and at the front door.
The house’s accomodation comprises of four beautiful decorated double rooms. Each of the rooms offer the modern day luxuries expected in a place of this statue including a private en suite bathroom with baths, as well as one double room with shower. One of the bedrooms is furnished with all of Karen Blixen's, the notable writer of ‘out of Africa’, furniture when she left Kenya. Giraffe Manor is a truly magnificent place to stay and is an experience that will not be forgotten.
In 1974 Jock Leslie-Melville, grandson of a Scottish earl, and his wife Betty, who also founded the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife (AFEW), bought the Manor. They then moved five babies of the highly endangered Rothschild giraffe to their property where they have been successfully reared and they now have their own babies.