Bomas of Kenya Tour, Excursions Safaris

Enjoy this cultural expedition to Kenya designed special for you. Here you'll find many interesting things. You will be treated to a rich traditional music and dance show at this cultural center. Bomas of Kenya is only ten kilometers from the city center.

The Government in 1971 at the Langata Forest started the Bomas of Kenya Limited. The Company was established to preserve and promote Kenyan Culture and to do this through cultural entertainments programmes for Tourists visiting Kenya and residents including school children.

How to get to Bomas
Bomas of Kenya is a centre of Kenyan cultural activities situated 10 km from the city centre on the Lanagata / Forest Edge Road. It is about 1 km past the main entrance to the Animal Orphanage and Nairobi National Park. Bomas of Kenya is adequately served by public transport i.e. Kenya Bus Services and Nissan Matatus Services. Members of the Public can board the buses at the Central Bus Statbomas of kenyaion in the city center Numbers 125, 126, and 24 service this route.

Performances
The Bomas Harambee Dancers the only resident dance company in Kenya perform daily in a spectacular circular theatre possibly the biggest and unique structure of its kind in Africa which seats 3,500 people. You will have the opportunity of seeing a colourful cross- section of the people of Kenya dancing to the pulsating beat of Coastal drums and other traditional instruments.

Dancers from all the tribes in Kenya move across the stage in a vibrant kaleidoscope of rhythm and the hue. Proud Maasai warriors vaul

skywards as they woo their maidens with chanting and twirling spears.

Performance Times

Monday to Friday - 2.30 p.m. to 4.00 p.m.

Saturday to Sunday - 3.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.

Public Holidays - 3.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. Traditional Villages

Before or after watching the Bomas dances, patrons take a leisurely guided tour of traditional villages with our trained information officers for an insight into the rich diversity of the culture of people of Kenya. The Word "Bomas" is authentic and African meaning simply "An African Homestead".

There are several different Bomas each representing one of Kenya's major ethnic groups and built to the original traditional architecture of an African Home as built by the ancestors. Here, visitors are able to see and experience the rural Kenya life and its social settings.

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