Full Day Mombasa Tour

Depart from your beach hotel in the morning and drive to Mombasa. Begin the tour with a visit Akamba Woodcraft at Changamwe where you can see the craftsmen at work and select your carvings at the lowest price you can ever get in the world. The Baobab forest along Mama Ngina Drive before proceeding to Fort Jesus Museum built by the Portuguese at the end of the 16th century. Fort Jesus dominates the entrance to Mombasa Harbor and commands good views over the Old Town. The Fort is now a national monument and houses an interesting museum.

Walk through Mombasa the second largest city in Kenya and which is located on an island. It is a steamy, tropical, low-rise city with asymmetrical streets, languid pace, a diverse and intriguing population. It is mostly a Swahili town and women can be seen chattering by in dark bui-bui or wrapped in brilliant multicolored kanga.

Mombasa is also a port and a commercial center and has a long and complex history. Walk through the streets of Old Town up to the Old Port to see the Dhows. The old town is a maze of narrow streets, mosques and crowded buildings, some with impressive carved doors or intricate balconies.

Later visit the MacKinnon market, Elephant Tusks and Indian Temple before proceeding to enjoy lunch at the restaurant . In the late afternoon visit Haller Park, a former quarry now reforested and stocked with animals. Haller park in the afternoon where feeding of Giraffes starts at 3pm and Hipos at 4pm. Afterwards, transfer back to your hotel.