Nairobi: Kibera Slum Guided Tour with Children's Orphanage Visit

Visit the largest urban informal settlement in Africa during this private, half-day tour through Nairobi’s Kibera slum. Explore the vibrant community with a born-and-bred Kibera local.

Get an insider’s perspective as you see local landmarks like a crafts workshop, the main marketplace, and even a personal visit to your tour guide’s family home. Enrich your understanding of the community by visiting with a locally-raised guide. Get a chance to visit a family home and see where residents study, shop, and live.

An orphanage/school built by sponsors: Meet this impressive group of guides and look at their work in the children's home school center.

A bead factory: in Kibera, everything is being reused, and so are also the bones from the butcher. See how these bones turn into beads.

Feel welcome in one of the houses in Kibera and ask your questions about day-to-day life in Kibera.

The biogas center: a fantastic view over Kibera and picture-point. You can see that human waste is not wasted here.

Hiv women's organization

Railway lines.

Toi market.

Kibera Drive.