Mombasa Excursions

Mombasa Excursions and Day Trips

bush safaris You will be picked up early in the morning at 8:15 am, from your hotel and driven to Ukunda town to the interior village. You will visit a school where you will be welcomed by the Head teacher and the students. You will be told which learning system they use in teaching, and after songs of welcome will be sang to you. After that you will be driven to village community and see how really Africans live. Here you will have a chance to enter in houses and see how they live and a story will be told about their culture. A traditional dance will be followed and you can join them dancing if you wish. Then to the Doctor (Medicine man) who will show you different types of medicines and their cure using natural herbs.

Then you will be taken to the reptile park and shown different types of reptiles and you will be told how they protect themselves, what kind of food they eat, which ones give birth and which ones lay eggs and how long they live. After here you will be driven to the local market where you will be able to buy gifts from your beloved ones from your country. A stop over to shopping center to buy what you need while driving back. Arrive time for lunch to your hotel.

mombasa 1 elephant tusks 2 Akamba village 3 Indian temple 4 Market 5old town Fort Jesus 6 Indian ocean view.

You will be picked up early in the morning at 7:30 am from your hotel and driven to Ukunda town and catch the Mombasa lunga lunga road to Mombasa and you visit the Elephant tusks at moi avenue street which was set, then proceed to Akamba wood carvers village. Here you will have a chance to see how people are talented to curve any sculpture of your need. You will go to one hurt to another and see for yourself how the curve. After that you will go to the show room and you will be amazed to see well finished stuff to buy.

After that, you will visit the Indian temple and learn more about Indian religion. You will have a chance to go inside the temple and see how they make their prayer and you feel close to God. You will take pictures of the temple and have a remembrance. After here you will drive to the old market and you can buy fresh spices.

Then you will proceed to fort Jesus which was built by the Portuguese in 1593. You will be able to go inside and see ancient things during that colonial time you will be told the history of the fort Jesus and Mombasa as whole.

After Fort Jesus you will drive through mama Ngina drive and make short break to see the nice view of the Indian Ocean. You can make here beautiful photos of remembrance then drive back and arrive to your Hotel in the afternoon time for lunch.

mangrove You will be picked up early in the morning at 7:15 am, from your hotel and driven through the Mombasa - Lunga lunga road and arrive at bodo and take a canoe engine boat and cruise to the Ramisi River searching for different types of birds see creatures, crocodiles and so on. After that you will cruise to the ocean searching for dolphins and then snorkeling or swimming, then you will have a sun bath at the almost 1 km, white sand bank.

At 12:30 pm, you will cruise to Funzi Island for Swahili lunch, which is grilled marinated fish, crabs, Lobsters, potatoes, rice cooked in coconut sauce. After lunch you will do a village walk and see how the people they live. Then you will visit a school and be told which education system teachers use.

After here you will go back and board your canoe engine boat and brought back to Bodo where you will catch your bus and drive back and arrive to your hotel at the evening.

You will be picked up early in the morning at 6:00am from your hotel and driven to shimba hills national reserve. As you arrive at the gate and pay the park fee, you will immediately start your game drive searching for elephants, leopards, giraffes, buffalos, hartebeest, sable antelopes which is the only park having these animals and many more.

At 9:40 am, you will be at the meeting point waiting for a ranger at 10:00 to take you to the sheldrick waterfall, which is 2 km note that you must be fiscal feet and healthy. You can have a fresh shower at the waterfall to refresh yourself.

Then you will be back to catch your bus for another game drive while driving to the only tree Hotel at the coast Shimba lodge for lunch. After lunch, you can have a walk through the wooden path 170 m, to the elephant pool and have a rest while taking photos of any animals which will be there.

At 3:00 pm, you will have a another game drive searching for the animals which you have not seen until late afternoon then drive back and arrive to your Hotel at the evening.

dhow safaris You will be picked up early in the morning at 7:15 am, from your Hotel and driven through the Mombasa Lunga - lunga road to Shimoni. On the way you will see villages, and learn a lot of trees e.g. the mango trees banana trees coconut trees and many others. You will also be amazed by the nice landscape.

On arrival at Shimoni, you will pay your Marine park fee then board an Arabic Dhow which will cruise you to kisite Marine Park. But on the way the Captain and his crues, they will pull up their socks to see that you find the Dolphins. If you don’t find them on the way, do not worry Dolphins can also be spotted at the snorkeling area and have a swim with them. Harm back and Whale sharks can also be spotted during the month of