Entry basics
Check your own passport requirements through official sources before you pay for travel.
Plan with context
Build a Kenya trip
that has room to work.
Before you book, choose a Nairobi base, one major contrast: safari or coast, and the transfer days you can genuinely afford. The rest becomes easier.
Turn the outline into a trip.
The route before the bookings
Choose fewer places, then give them more of you.
Start by shaping the days between the big moments. A clear base, one direction and realistic movement time are the decisions that make a Kenya trip feel generous.
Timing
Build your route around the season and the experience you want-not a generic “best time”.
Budget
Separate the cost of moving between places from what you want to do once you arrive.
On the ground
Sort your first-night address, connection and local transport before your flight lands.
A useful order
Three decisions before the route becomes real.
Before booking
Give Nairobi a real beginning.
Choose a neighbourhood and reserve enough time to arrive well. The city is a useful first chapter, not just the place before the next transfer.
Choose the contrast
Safari or coast for a short trip.
A first week becomes stronger when it follows one major contrast after Nairobi: open landscape and wildlife, or a slower stretch of Indian Ocean coast.
Keep the return easy
Leave the last day light.
A final buffer close to your flight protects the route from a long road, a changed connection or the rare afternoon that deserves more time.
Planning notes
Useful before
you go.
Guides
A first week in Kenya: choose the trip before the route
For a first week in Kenya, choose one main experience and protect time at the beginning and end for arrival and departure.
Travel essentialsKenya eTA: fees, eligibility and how to apply
Kenya’s official eTA portal lists standard applications from USD 30 and typical processing of three business days, with longer checks possible.
GuidesNairobi on arrival: airports, neighbourhoods and a manageable first day
For a first Nairobi arrival, arrange the airport transfer and choose your base around the next move.