Group elephants at Amboseli

Your Day trip to Malindi and Watamu Beach starts here!

Your Malindi and Watamu Beach excursion starts with an early pick up atyour hotel in Mombasa, following a dhow sailing to dolphin view, Snorkeling and seafood lunch before returning back.

swimming at Kisite Marine Park

The small town of Malindi is at the centre of a strip of idyllic tropical beaches offering the visitor a range of world class resorts and quiet relaxing hideaways.

Further south, the sleepy village of Watamu is fronted by wide white beaches.

Your Malindi and Watamu Beach day trip activities

  • 1. Early Pick up at Mombasa or Diani

    Your day trip to Malindi and Watamu starts with an early pick up at Mombasa or Diani to Kilifi County.

  • 2. Visit Malindi Marine National Park

    At Watamu a Marine National Park has been established, an ideal day trip both for divers and snorkellers alike.

  • 3. Visit Marafa Depression

    Northwest of Malindi is the spectacular Marafa Depression, locally known as Nyari and popularly known as Hell’s Kitchen.

    An extensive series of sandstone gorges and sheer gullies, this unique and other worldly landscape has become part of local folklore.

  • 4. Visit Arabuko Sokoke Forest

    The thick jungles of the Arabuko Sokoke Forest reserve hide a world of wonders.

    In the cool of the forest winding paths will take you in search of rare endemic birds and mammals, and visiting herds of Elephant.

  • 5. Visit Gedi Ruins

    The forest holds another secret, the lost town of Gedi, a deserted trading Swahili town hidden deep in the forests, whose winding passages and crumbling walls tell of a long and mysterious past.

    Walk through the Forest, explore the mangroves by boat, dive on the reef or try your hand at big game fishing.

    At the North coast you have all these choices and more, with the space and freedom to relax, unwind, and soak up the atmosphere.