BOMAS OF KENYA (4 Hours)

Bomas of Kenya offers you "Kenya in a miniature". It lets you see the wonderful diversity of cultures that make up Kenya.

The term Bomas, meaning "homestead", are displayed on your tour; each represent one of Kenya's major ethnic groups, and is built to the original traditional architecture of an African home as built by the ancestors.

The government in 1971 as a wholly owned subsidiary company of Kenya Tourist Development Corporation (K.T.D.C) started the Bomas of Kenya. It was established to preserve, maintain and promote rich and diverse cultural values of various groups of Kenya, and to act as a tourist attraction center.

Different aspects of Kenyan culture are displayed that include living styles, crafts, music and dancing.

You can view traditional villages representing the lifestyle of ethnic groups such as Kikuyu, Kalenjin, Luhya, Taita, Embu, Maasai, Kamba, Kisii, Kuria, Mijikenda and Luo.

The Bomas' world famous Harambee dancers perform daily in a unique spectacular theater, the biggest in Africa which seats 3,500 people. Dancers representing different ethnic tribes dance across the stage in a vibrant kaleidoscope rhythm and hue. Proud Samburu warriors vault skywards as they woo their maidens with chanting cries and twirling spears.