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Where I can take you

A destination is a place: a park, a stretch of coast, a historic site. An experience is the programme that takes you there: timings, transport, transfer times, what is included. Here you'll find the places, and from each one you can reach the experiences that go there.

From the coast, in a day or so

  • A monkey climbing down from a branch over the dirt path while guests stop to watch.
    Coastal forest

    Arabuko-Sokoke Forest

    The largest coastal forest left in East Africa, a few minutes from Watamu, with species that live almost nowhere else.

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  • The stone arch at the entrance to a historic site, with visitors under the trees.
    UNESCO site

    Gedi (Gede)

    The ruins of a Swahili town built in coral stone, abandoned centuries ago and taken back by the forest, now inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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  • Visitors walking through the stone arch of the historic site, among the ruins and the trees.
    Coastal town

    Malindi

    A Swahili port of long standing and a seaside town Italians have been coming to for half a century: Malindi is both, often on the same street.

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  • The group of guests sitting in a row on the ridge, watching the sun go down.
    Sandstone canyon

    Marafa

    A sandstone canyon carved out by water and wind in the hinterland behind Malindi, where you walk down among spires tens of metres high.

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  • Guests sitting in the bow as the boat passes through the mangroves.
    Tidal area

    Mida Creek

    An arm of the sea that reaches inland through the mangroves, a few minutes from Watamu, where the tide decides the time of every activity.

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  • An elephant covered in red dust, side-on in the dry scrub.
    National park

    Tsavo East National Park

    The park closest to the coast and one of the largest in Kenya: open plains, red earth and the elephants that take its colour.

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  • Three starfish on the white sandy bottom under a few centimetres of water.
    Marine reserve

    Watamu Marine National Park

    The marine protected area in front of Watamu beach: lagoon, coral reef and sandbanks that appear and disappear with the tide.

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  • A long-tusked elephant drinking at the edge of a pool.
    National park

    Amboseli National Park

    Grasslands, spring-fed swamps and large herds of elephants, with the outline of Kilimanjaro behind them when the clouds let it show.

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  • Three lions lying in the middle of the track, two safari vehicles stopped at a distance on the green plain.
    National reserve

    Maasai Mara

    The best-known reserve in Kenya, at the opposite end of the country from the coast: from Watamu you get there by air, never by road transfer.

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  • Visitors at the foot of a monumental baobab, along the red-earth path.
    Coastal village and dunes

    Mambrui and the dunes

    An old Swahili settlement north of Malindi, with pillar tombs and a belt of dunes running down to an almost empty beach.

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  • The colourful excursion boat moored on the sandbank, guests aboard and turquoise water all around.
    Fishing village

    Mayungu and the sandbank

    The fishing village between Watamu and Malindi from which the boats leave for the sandbank that surfaces at low tide.

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  • A leopard stretched along the branch of an acacia.
    National park

    Tsavo West National Park

    Volcanic hills, lava flows and springs of remarkably clear water: Tsavo West is more enclosed, greener and more varied than its neighbour to the east.

    Taita-Taveta County2 linked experiences

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