KOGELO TRAVELS & EXCURSIONS

Home Stays

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Homestays are an ideal way to experience Kenyan life.

In some areas, homestays with Kenyan families can be arranged that allow visitors to spend time in a local home and to discover the way of life in a typical household.

This kind of 'cultural exchange' tourism is popular with visiting student groups, and those with an interest in Kenyan culture.

Tented Camps

For those looking for the Camping experience without the possible discomfort, then a Tented Camp is an ideal option.

Tented Camps provide the visitor with large walk in tents, complete with beds and furniture. The tent often has its own private bathroom with supplied water, showers and flush toilets.

In some cases these camps are established on a mobile basis and fully stocked and equipped by a safari company. In other permanent tented camps, tents are on large raised wooden platforms with private balconies and excellent views.

Most Tented camps have a central mess tent, or a fully stocked restaurant and bar. Levels of luxury in tented camps vary from the functional through to five star, with tents offering the standard of accommodation one would expect from a top end international resort.

Lodges

Safari lodges in Kenya offer hotel-style comforts and accommodation in the wilderness.

Standards vary from the rustic to the modern, from the simply appointed to the last word in luxury.

Efforts is usually made to design lodges that blend into their environment, with an emphasis on all natural local building materials and use of traditional art and decoration.

Rental Homes, Apartments and Cottages

Throughout Kenya, it is possible to find excellent rental properties for short or long term lets.

These vary from rustic cottages in the bush to historic Swahili Mansions on the coast, from serviced city apartments to houses fronted by beautiful deserted beaches.

Renting a private property is a good way to gain a new perspective on Kenya and to get away from lodges, camps and hotels and relax on your own.

Camping

A camping safari in Kenya is one of the world's great travel adventures. Pitching your tent in the bush gives you the feeling of really living in the wild. The romance of an open campfire under a magnificent sky full of stars is undeniable, and night in the wild is a magical time, when the air rings with the whooping calls of hyenas and the dawn is heralded by the unforgettable sound of a lions roar.

This is truly a great adventure, and most of Kenya's Game Reserves and National Parks have campgrounds and some basic facilities.

Clubs

The clubs are halfway between hotels and lodges. They are former private clubs from the colonial days, that are now open to the public. They are usually located in large estates and offer golf course, putting green, tennis courts, swimming pools, horse riding and vast gardens.

Some of them have private wildlife reserves. Two examples are the Mount Kenya Safari Club, which was co-founded by the actor William Holden and hosts an animal orphanage, and the Aberdare Country Club, the base hotel for The Ark.

Hotels

Kenya has a great variety of hotel accommodation to suit all budgets and tastes.

For backpackers and those looking for cheap lodgings, Nairobi has a YMCA, youth hostel and many budget hotels. Almost every town in the country offers basic budget hotels and lodgings. In many tourist areas, private campsites and small hotels offer budget rates for backpackers