Get to know a different side of Nairobi on this half-day guided tour to the Kibera Slums. See what daily life is like for the residents of Africa’s largest slums as you tour the open-air markets, nursery schools, and a local Biogas plant that uses human waste as its raw material and powers 200 homes in the area. Get an insider perspective and get a deeper understanding of these slums.
Upon arrival, you will be met by our tour manager, who will take you to your hotel to check-in. After which a brief tour of Nairobi city before heading to the sprawling Kibera Slum, considered the biggest slum in sub-Saharan Africa. While in Kibera, you will go to an HIV orphaned children's homes; Kibera Olympic primary school and Baraka Za Ibrahim School.
where you will see how crowded the classrooms are due to the free primary school system, the day to day activity of the residents, the type of housing and the unavailability of sanitary facilities, lack of regular feeding timetable, the flowing sewage, and the businesses undertaken by the residents.
Return to your hotel for dinner and overnight.
After breakfast, a drive to Nairobi's industrial area, then into the Mukuru Kayaba, where you will visit the local NGO center, which has a school, feeding center, and the women group activities the slum. Have lunch at a hotel in the industrial area. In the afternoon, proceed to Kiambiu slum next to the Kenya Air Force base in Eastleigh. You will meet the slum dwellers, those who do not go to the Nairobi central business district, the primary school, and the community leaders. They will brief you on the daily chores of this slum.
Return to your hotel for dinner and overnight.
After breakfast, a drive to the Mathare slum, where you will see the new housing development project in the slum. Visit the drug addicts' rehabilitation center, the school for the HIV orphaned children, and the bank of Nairobi River. Have lunch at the nearby Utalii Hotel.
After lunch, proceed to the Korokocho slum, where you will be amazed by the number of roaming children in the slum.
After that, visit local NGO's poverty rehabilitation project, a catholic secondary school, a market, and a local police station. After that, proceed to the Nairobi city refuse dumpsite in Dandora, where you will see an immense heap of refuse in Africa, which acts as a source of food and income to the poor who scavenge there every day.
Return to your hotel for dinner and overnight.
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Vladimír Staňura – USA
We wanted to do safari with my wife in Kenya. Diwaka Safaris organized our trip for 17 days professionally. We were very satisfied with all services. The best part was our guide Patrick Waweru who did an excellent job.
josefkingley – USA
Decided to do one a early Jan before the corona nightmare...wasnt decided on the exact itinerary especially the accommodation to choose...did my own research and decided on the ones I could get though decided they can also advice on what they had in mind so that we could compare prices as well as I could get to check on their diff reviews...was a 4 nights trip just Naivasha where we stayed at Naivasha Sopa and Mara at Ashnil..loved ashnil way better cos of the views as well what we got to see the in terms of wildlife..