Top Nairobi Historical Tours

Learn about life in Nairobi's Kireba slum area respectfully, while giving back to the community, on a tour led by a guide who was born, raised, and still lives in the neighborhood. Visit a craft area where residents upcycle materials into jewelry and crafts, spend time with local children, visit a local home, and more.

This is not just a walking tour, we get to interact with different communities, explore the history, culture, traditions. Pick up from your Hotel can also be arranged.

Nairobi is massive, and finding your way around can be a challenge if you explore independently. This tour makes seeing the best of the city easy, and includes pickup from your hotel and the services of a guide so that you don't need to worry about getting lost or missing highlights.

Many people meet members of the Maasai tribe during safari tours, but few get a chance to enjoy deeper and more meaningful interactions. Experience life in a Maasai village during this immersive half-day tour. Participate in village activities like milking goats, cooking ugali, and making your own beadwork. During Mondays and Fridays, visitors can also attend a livestock market.

Kenya is well known for its landscape and wildlife, but visitors are often left wondering about the lifestyle and culture of the country’s indigenous communities. Separate the fact from the fiction on this day tour to a Maasai village and hear first-hand insights into Maasai traditions directly from community members. Benefit from the personalized attention and insights of your private guide and travel the distance easily with round-trip transportation from your Nairobi hotel.

Ideal as an introduction for first-time visitors to Nairobi (or anyone looking to enhance their understanding of the Kenyan capital), this tour ditches the dry historical information and gives travelers an insider’s view of the city. Highlights include Jamia Mosque, souvenir shopping at City Market, and a city-wide panorama from KICC. Bottled water and door-to-door, air-conditioned vehicle transfers are provided.

This being a private tour in a safari car and free internet on board, you will have a good chance to interact with your driver, who is also the guide, as you pass through the city lines and ask any questions freely. Visit the Karen Blixen museum and get all the information with memories of Out of Africa. Learn more about the endangered Rothschild giraffe and how they are rescued and reintroduced into the wild. This tour allows you to select your favorite time due to the many time slots.

Visit two of Nairobi’s most must-see attractions during this small-group, half-day tour to the Karen Blixen Museum and the Giraffe Center. Tour the private home of the celebrated Out of Africa author before learning about local conservation efforts to protect endangered giraffes. Door-to-door transportation—including front-door pickup and drop-off from your Nairobi hotel—is provided.

It is the cheapest slum tour and high quality life changing experience for those who have never been in the slums because we want a lot of people to understand our way of life in the slum. We have provision for edutainment where we have traditional dances from the school. The pick-up point will be flexible for both parties. Visitors will have the opportunity to see the innermost part of the slum and the households of the real slum. The visitor will see the mixture of different cultures staying together as one in the slum. Most importantly, we are not highlighting poverty but the resilience of the human spirit in adversity by supporting a school called Agape hope for kibera with 20% of the income.

The tour provides an immersive dive into the city's unique architectural heritage, bustling local commerce, and rich political history, transforming a standard sightseeing trip into an authentic local encounter.

Enjoy a day away from the hustle and bustle of the capital on a private day tour to Kiambethu Farm in Limuru, and learn about the history and cultivation of one of Kenya’s top export- tea. Explore the serene grounds with a guide for insight into the traditional and modern uses of the native flora, and unwind with lunch, drinks, and round-trip transfer included.

Learn about two of Kenya's most famous animals on this tour to the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage and the Giraffe Centre. See the animals in a safe, contained environment focused on rehabilitation and conservation. This tour includes all entrance fees and private transportation for a hassle-free experience.

The ideal way to tick off the Karen Blixen Museum and Denys Finch Hatton’s grave site in a day—this private tour helps you avoid the hassle of waiting around for local buses. Travel comfortably in a private vehicle and enjoy commentary to help you learn about the fascinating life story of Karen Blixen and her famous memoir “​​Out of Africa”.

we visit old building like macmillan library and kipande house established in the early 20 century before kenya attained its independence. We also get to learn about the culture of people living in Nairobi and our way of life. Also we will see the beautiful modern building that have been constructed recently making Nairobi very attractive. Both younger and older people have a lot of things to learn about the culture, history and the modern way of life in this part of the world.

Dive into the cultural and natural treasures of Nairobi with our specially curated day tour, encompassing the Karen Blixen Museum, Kazuri Beads Factory, and the Giraffe Centre. This journey offers a blend of history, local artisan crafts, and wildlife interaction, making for a memorable day out in Kenya's vibrant capital city. Starting with the former home of acclaimed Danish author Karen Blixen, we delve into the pages of her famous book Out of Africa followed by a visit to the Kazuri Beads Factory where you experience firsthand the beautiful handcrafts made by local women. The day rounds off with a visit to the Giraffe Centre, offering the unique opportunity to come face-to-face with the endangered Rothschild giraffes. Let's embark on this exciting adventure! Appreciate African women craftsmanship at the beads women factory.

By doing this tour you will discover and learn all about Kenyan coffee production with this farm-to-cup experience just 30min outside of Nairobi. You will tour a coffee estate, learning about every step from best farming practices, to production process, and ultimately sample freshly brewed Kenyan coffee yourself. You will be welcomed and briefed at the visitor's area about the farm. Learn various types of coffee grown on the farm, how to pick coffee, and how it's processed to the final products you consume back in your homes. You will see the coffee drying areas, and experience coffee tasting from different grades, types, and varieties. After this, you can buy an array of items from the farm and also take your last cup of coffee with snacks as we leave for your hotel.

Nairobi gathers Kenya’s diverse cultures, cuisines, and people into one vibrant city, but with so much to see and do it's hard to know where to start. Sample a little bit of everything on a Nairobi adventure that combines a guided tour of downtown with a trip to Bomas of Kenya, where you’ll see dances, crafts, music, and homes brought from all over the country.

While better known for coffee, Kenya also produces tea. Discover the leaf behind the liquid on this door-to-door day trip to Kiambethu Farm, Kenya’s first tea plantation, established in 1910. Exploring with a guide in a group no larger than 15, tour the tea fields, stroll the forest, keeping an eye out for colobus monkeys, learn about indigenous plants, and feast on a 3-course buffet lunch.

An attraction-packed overview for first-time visitors to the Kenyan capital, this private, full-day tour visits three museums—topped off by a stop at Bomas of Kenya. Learn about the country’s archaeological history at the National Museum, see a collection of artifacts and train models at the Railway Museum, and visit the former home of the writer known as Isaak Denison at the Karen Blixen Museum. Transportation and admission tickets are provided.

This tour offers you a great experience from History of Karen blixen then Visit Kobe beads center have opportunity to meet Kenyan women at work in a bead factory have a memorable experience.

Kibera is the largest slum in Africa. This tour is perfect for people who are genuinely interested in learning, understanding, and engaging respectfully with local communities.

Take a guided walking tour of Nairobi with a private guide: Souvenir shopping in Kenya can be a minefield. Navigate it with ease on this door-to-door private Shopping Activity, with your driver/guide on hand to translate, carry heavy items, and advice if required. A typical Shopping Activity includes stops at four high-caliber stores: Kobe Beads Factory, Utamaduni Crafts Centre, the Maasai Market, and Galleria Shopping Mall.Between the language barrier and the prevalence of low-quality goods.

Spot free-roaming wildlife at the edge of Nairobi on a Nairobi National Park game drive in an open-top safari vehicle. An early-morning departure means cooler temperatures and the chance to see the animals when they’re most active, prowling grassy plains and acacia bush with the dramatic backdrop of city skyscrapers.