Half-Day Mombasa City Tour

from $125.00

Duration

1 day

Max People

100

Tour Type

Safari

Reviews

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Overview


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Immerse yourself in Mombasa’s diverse cultures and history on a full-day tour that explores cobblestone streets, vibrant markets, and local cuisine. With an experienced guide to introduce the best of the city, you’ll see the Fort Jesus Museum, the old town’s Old Dhow Harbor, the Mombasa bazaar and market, and more, pausing to shop for handmade souvenirs along the way. This guided Mombasa tour includes lunch at Tamarind Mombasa, a seaside restaurant that’s beloved for great seafood and views of the water. Guided tour of Mombasa highlights Visit Fort Jesus, a UNESCO World Heritage Site Shop in the bazaar and market Includes lunch at an upscale, seaside restaurant

0800hrs our guide shall pick you up early in the morning from your beach or city hotel. Then drive to Mombasa Old Town. A visit to the old town reveals the rich culture and architectural heritage of Mombasa with a fascinating history dating back to 200 AD, Mombasa is the largest port in East Africa.

Next, proceed to Fort Jesus built by the Portuguese in the 16th Century. The site chosen was a coral ridge at the entrance to the harbor and was built to secure the safety of Portuguese living on the East Coast of Africa. It has had a long history of hostilities among the interested parties that used to live in Mombasa. Omani Arabs attacked the Fort from 1696 to 1698. Between 1837 and 1895, the Fort was used as barracks for soldiers.

Your day takes you down an intriguing maze of cobbled narrow streets, ancient mosques, and picturesque residential houses that evoke the island's medieval past, overhanging balconies, and mysterious doorways.

Visit Mwembe Tayari's open-air market, bustling markets filled with exotic spices, fruit, and colorful fabrics.

Afterward, drive through the Elephant Tusks on Moi Avenue. The symbolic representations of entrance into the heart of town.

2.00 pm lunch at Forodhani Restaurant

4.00 pm after lunch, we later drop you at your hotel after this wonderful tour.

Inclusive

Transportation as per itinerary.
Accommodation per itinerary or similar with a request to all our clients.
Lunch
Service of a tour guide
National park & game reserve entrance fees as per itinerary.
Excursions & activities as per itinerary with a request
Recommended Mineral Water while on safari.

Tour Plan

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The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Elephant and Rhino Orphanage.

Inside the western end of Nairobi National Park, offers a wonderful opportunity to see the baby elephants being fed with milk from bottles and when they play with each other. The keepers will give you a lecture of each of them explaining their names and their life histories on how they were orphaned. It’s a great place to go and adopt a baby elephant.

The trust was run for many years by Dame Daphne Sheldrick in memory of her husband David Sheldrick, the founding warden of Tsavo National Park. Dame Daphne died in 2018, but the hand-rearing methods and substitute elephant milk formula that she developed over many years of trial and error will outlive her and are now being replicated across Africa.

During the hour-long open house, the elephant keepers bring their juvenile charges out to play for an hour between 11:00 and 12:00. After some ad hoc football games and mud baths, the elephants and their keepers come up to an informal rope barrier stretched along one side of the ‘playground’ from where you can easily take photos. Each keeper gives a short presentation to the visitors nearest to him, explaining how orphaned elephants need to be cared for. The youngest infants are assigned keepers for individual 24-hour guardianship, a responsibility that includes sleeping in their stables.

9:30am: Pick up from your Hotel for the Sheldrick elephant orphanage trip

10:15am: Arrive at the Daphne Sheldrick orphanage shelter

11:00am: Start of the Public viewing of the baby elephants at the Nairobi Elephant orphanage

12:00pm: End of the public viewing and lecture on baby elephants.

12:15pm: Depart the Daphne Sheldrick elephant orphanage and head to Nairobi National Park.

Giraffe Center

The Giraffe Centre in Nairobi is an amazing place to visit. It started as a rehabilitation project to rescue the Rothschild Giraffe. There were only 120 giraffes left in a ranch in Western Kenya when the Giraffe Center was founded.

The giraffe centre provides you with pellets that you can feed the giraffes by hand with. You can even give take photos while feeding the animals by your mouth and it seems like you are kissing the giraffe.

2:30pm: Arrive at the Giraffe centre located at the Karen suburbs. Start feeding the giraffes as you hug them and take pictures up close with these humble giants.

4.00pm: Giraffe centre day tour ends with a drop off in your hotel in the city.