Mombasa
Town Tours & Excursions
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Mombasa
Half Day City Tour
On the tour, you will visit
the following historical and cultural
places: the Fort Jesus,
the Mwembe Tayari open-air
market, the local bazaars, handicraft
carvers, walk through the famous curvy
alley-roads and the business district.
Price:
50 US Dollars
2010
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Mombasa
Full Day City Tour
On
the tour, you will visit the following
historical and cultural places: the Fort
Jesus, the Mwembe Tayari
open-air market, the local bazaars, handicraft
carvers, walk through the famous curvy
alley-roads, the business district, Haller
Park and lunch at Tamarind Restaurant.
Price
: 100 US
Dollars
2010
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Mamba
Village Visit (Crocodile Farm Tour)
Situated
in Nyali, is East Africa’s largest
crocodile farm. The Crocodile Farm Displays
the age, weight and length of crocodiles.
You will also see hatchlings to 5 meter
long "big daddy" - the man eating
monster, sun basking along the tropical
garden trail. At five pm. daily, the crocodiles
are fed and you can see them jump high in
the air to snap the meat. Camel
Riding, Horse Riding
& Mamba Restaurant
overlooking the crocodile pond, a unique
"a la carte" restaurant serves
game meat like crocodile and ostrich. They
also have Beautiful collection of plants
and flowers specializing in orchids and
aquatic flora. On display are carnivorous
species, marine aquarium and snakes.
Price :
90 US Dollars
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Explore
Mombasa by Night - Dhow Cruise, Casino &
Bora Bora Club
You
will be taken to the old port and escorted
onto to an authentic Arab Dhow. As the
sun sets, you set sail into the harbor
and past Fort Jesus. The dark African
night sky full of stars, the lapping of
waves against the Dhow, truly a romantic
setting if ever there was one.
Then
as you glide past Fort Jesus you are treated
to a sound and light show that is absolutely
spectacular. After the show you will make
your landing and venture into the Fort
for supper. When supper is done and you
have had your fill, the night life begins!
Price
½ night: US Dollars 100
Price Full night:
US Dollars 200
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Tamarind
Dhow Dinner & Dance Cruise
This
evening cruise is the most renown of all
the coastal trips. An enchanting evening
of exotic seafood blended with a romantic
cruise aboard an authentic Arab Dhow around
the old port of Mombasa Town. The dhow,
Nawalilkher, was built in 1977 for trading.
At 23 meters, she is the largest dhow
on the coast. Purchased in 1986, she was
converted for restaurant use by her original
builder Fundi Bini on Lamu Island, under
the watchful eye of Mohammed Shalle, who
is still her captain today. An enchanting
evening of exotic sea food blended with
a romantic cruise aboard an authentic
Arab Dhow.
Price:
75 US
Dollars
2010
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Nature
Trail Park (Haller park)
Haller
Park nature Trail started as a cement
factory in 1954. The factory obtained
its raw materials from the quarry, a fossil
coral limestone reef that lived 125,000
to 250,000 years ago. A variety of game
animals and birds, which are not so easy
to see, inhabit the fenced area. Each
has a function in Nature Trail's ecosystem,
and almost all of them utilize a different
feeding niche.
Price:
75
US Dollars
2010
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Ngomongo
Cultural Tour
For
centuries there existed a thriving culture
and society in East Africa mix of Arab and
native peoples. Ngomongo Cultural Center
is a look back in time in miniature of tribal
life and community groundings. Here you
are able to get a glimpse of the lifestyle
and cultures that existed for centuries
before “civilization" came to
Africa. Different traditional tribal huts
are set up in this themed village, with
peoples from the different tribes portraying
their ancestors. Watch and participate in
different food preparation, sample the local
brews and various tribal dances etc.
Price:
75 US
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Scuba
Diving Excursion at Kisite Marine Park (75
Miles South of Mombasa Town)
Kisite
- Mpunguti Marine Park and National Reserves
are found off the Kenyan coast, 75 miles
south of Mombasa. This Marine Park and
Reserve has been a center of discussion
for European marine biologists because
of its increasing number of new fish species
and corals being documented, and particularly
because of the marine environment still
being intact. There are currently around
250 varieties of marine fishes, and over
40 varieties of coral species documented.
In the Kisite - Mpunguti Marine Park and
National Reserves some of the commonly
seen fish include: large numbers of pelagic
fish, butterfly, parrot, rockcod, angel,
manta ray. Turtles, dolphins, reef sharks
are also seen. The pristine coral varieties
are impeccable; corals like staghorn,
brain, liliac-blue, mushroom, and lavender
present unique photo taking opportunities.
The colorful beauty of the coral, complimented
by the large number of yellow and red
tuna and snappers are unmatched.
Price:
250
US Dollars
2010
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Kisite
Marine Park Snorkeling — Wasini
Dhow
Kisite is the best and
most accessible Marine Park in Kenya.
Once out on the Indian Ocean, there are
regular sightings of dolphins, often accompanied
by their rollicking offspring. Within
the Wasini Channel, the rare hump-backed
dolphins are also often sighted. Scuba
diving and fun-diving guests often meet
turtles underwater, too. Kisite also has
a fantastic variety of fishes and coral.
Snorkeling is done off the fringing reef
of a large rocky islet and a wonderful
sand bar, which appears out of the blue
ocean at low tide. On top of the islet,
is a large colony, in season, of noisy,
nesting sooty terns. Provided with masks
and snorkels but no fins, snorkels float
above what can be compared to a personal,
gigantic, tropical aquarium. Assistance
is also provided to first timers.
Price:
135
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Shimba
Hills National Reserve (Day Trip)
The
Shimba Hills National Reserve is 74 square
miles in size and access to the Park is
via Diani South Coast, 56 km from Mombasa.
The reserve is made up of both open grassland
and dense rainforest, all with stunning
views across the Indian Ocean. This pristine
wonderland of rolling meadows and forests
of giant primeval trees harbors a wide variety
of wildlife, including some 500 elephant
that favor the refreshing fruit of the borassus
palm. There are leopards often heard but
not frequently seen. The most distinctive
of the Shimba Hills National Reserve's many
species is perhaps the rare and impressive
Sable antelope, found in
the same habitats as several large herds
of buffalo.
Price
: 150
US Dollars
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Tsavo
East National Park Day Safari
The combined
area of Tsavo East and West National Parks
makes Tsavo one of the world's largest game
sanctuaries, larger than Wales in Great
Britain or Jamaica in the Caribbean. Lying
about halfway between Nairobi and Mombasa
it covers 20,812 square kilometers. Tsavo
East is larger and more arid than Tsavo
West. A variety of animals can be seen:
lions, leopard, cheetah, zebras, giraffes,
serval, antelopes, Kongoni, lesser kudu,
Oryx, Klipspringer, Impala, Stripped Hyena,
Ostriches, Gazelles, Buffalos, Elephants
and many more. As day breaks, drive along
Mombasa-Nairobi Highway for a distance of
90 Miles/140 km entering Tsavo East National
Park through the Bachuma gate and start
your ‘Spice’ game viewing.
Price
: 185
US Dollars
2010
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Malindi
and Gedi Tour – Full Day
Malindi
was made famous after Vasco da Gama's stop
over in 1498. In Malindi, you will see narrow
alleys in the old part of town where the
old houses have been lived in for centuries.
One of the oldest East African churches
still stands strong; the Church of St. Francis
Xavier still stands strong across from Vasco
da Gama's pillar, where he carved the Christian
cross. Also extant is the Juma'a mosque,
which was misused as a haven for slave trading
until mid 1870's.
Price
: 150 US Dollars
2010
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