Travel to Giraffe Manor

The Mistress is getting prepared again to depart for vacation this week, so I apologize for being so absent of late. While Nairobi is not where I'm going, it is on the bucket list, and I have already told the Boy-Toy we will need to start saving for the trip and planning when. How neat is this to be able to look out your glorious second story window and see giraffe's roaming free. Giraffe Manor is a small hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, which together with its associated Giraffe Centre, serves as a home to a number of endangered Rothschild giraffes, and operates a breeding program to reintroduce breeding pairs back into the wild to secure the future of the subspecies. In 1974 the Manor was purchased by Betty Leslie-Melville and her husband Jock, along with 15 acres of the original 150 acres. Since then a further 60 acres of those have also been purchased, which along with an additional 40 acres gifted by Peter Beard which used to form part of his "Hog Ranch" has brought the total acreage of the Manor up to 115 acres.



They then moved two highly endangered baby Rothschild giraffe to the estate, where they thrived and have produced several further generations of giraffe.When Jock died, Betty decided to open her house, now called The Giraffe Manor, to visitors. It is the only place in the world where you can feed and photograph the giraffe over your breakfast table and at the front door, and even from a bedroom window.




And the manor itself is spacious and elegant and is probably the only place one can feed a giraffe from a second story window.The accommodations are warm it has a highly qualified staff and I hear one of Kenya's finest kitchens. I don't know about you, but I'm soooooooo ready to go. I just adore giraffe! Tootles!