Day 1: Arrival and pick up from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, in Nairobi, Kenya and transfer to host family home

Day 2: Morning: registration and start of orientation. About 4 hours lecture at the home of your host. Topics covered during orientation lecture will include East African culture, history, customs, politics, geography, and necessary health precautions, and various other topics, such as the diversity of Kenyan life. Afternoon is free for exploring rural Kenyan life and getting to know your host family.

Day 3: Intentional volunteers and interns abroad leave for project early in the morning after breakfast. Introductions held with project staff, and the host family.

Day 3-6: Voluntary service or internship work abroad. Volunteers and interns are free to explore the surrounding areas in their free time.

Day 7-13: Mombasa Beach Holiday Trip

Day 7: Travel to Mombasa International volunteers and interns travel to and from Mombasa will be by bus or train arriving early morning the following day.

Day  8: Arrival, meet, pickup. International volunteers and interns abroad in Kenya transfer to hotel about 30 minutes away from the city. Ideally, accommodation will be in a conventional hotel rooms or in makuti (coconut palm) thatched beach rooms with conventional hotel amenities including. Community room will have satellite television, telephone, mini-bar and restaurant serving local and international cuisine.

Hotel facilities include swimming pool and guest laundry service. Some hotels will have diving school and tennis courts.If you arrive early you will have the day to yourself to relax, enjoy the beach and have fun or to take a personal tour of the city of Mombasa.Dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 9: Tour of Mombasa City. After breakfast international volunteers and interns abroad in Kenya proceed on a full day city tour of Mombasa.

The tour will take you to Mombasa Old Town and Fort Jesus, Kilindini Old Port, Akamba and Marikit markets. You will be fascinated by the unique architectural design of Fort Jesus constructed by the Portuguese in 1593 to protect them from enemies. Walk through the grid of narrow winding streets lined with houses built to coastal Swahili and Indian designs that is Mombasa Old Town.

You will also visit the Akamba Handicraft market and see artists carve various crafts as you watch. You will also visit Marikit market and an Indian Temple. Time permitting volunteers abroad and overseas interns in Kenya will tour Haller Park, named after the Swiss agronomist Rene Haller whose vision transformed a huge abandoned cement quarry into a spectacular 7 sq km nature and animal sanctuary.

Breakfast, dinner and overnight at your hotel.

Day 10: Beach Relaxation:  The entire day is free for international volunteers and interns abroad in Kenya to do what they like best. Simply relax, and enjoy the beach at the hotel, swim in the blue waters of Indian Ocean, or take a private excursion for wind surfing, scuba diving, water skiing, snorkeling, deep-sea fishing or goggling.Breakfast, dinner and overnight at your hotel.

Day 11: Bush Tour: Early after breakfast international volunteers and interns abroad in Kenya start out on a half-day “bush tour”. Depart for Kilifi with stopover at a sisal plantation. Visit a village of the local Miji-Kenda people, have fun and interact with the local community as you observe their way of life.

Thereafter drive back to Mombasa arriving late afternoon.Breakfast, dinner and overnight at your hotel.

Excellent hostel accommodation can be arranged at extra a cost.

Breakfast and dinner provided.

Vegetarian meals provided with prior request.