Stay with a local family in the village of Lembeni in Kenya and learn about the rural lifestyle. During your stay you’ll get to do activities, such as:
-Cooking and eating together with your host family
-Practicing the livelihood of the family
-Hiking trip to the nearby hills
-Shopping excursion to the Maasai market
-Meeting the savings group
-Planting a tree at an environmental project site
Sustainability
The village experience is especially socially sustainable because the locals benefit directly from the travellers’s stays. The locals are also free to choose themselves what part of their culture they show to the travellers, instead of having a readymade touristic program to follow. Finally, no special tourism infrastructure is built in the village and the food and water consumption is only according to the locals’ needs. To maintain the carrying capacity of the travelers’s, only individual travellers can visit the area at once and no groups are accepted.
What’s Included
-Private room in a local home,
fan mosquito nets and bed sheets included
-Home made breakfast, lunch and dinner daily
-Shared toilet and washing facilities
-Activities
What’s Not Included
Transportation for getting to the village
Trip Itinerary
1st day: Arrival to the village in the afternoon, meeting the english speaking local contact person who introduces you to the host family. Getting familiar with the house and the hosts. Cooking and eating dinner together with the hosts. Depending on the time of arrival, small activites in the village can happen.
2nd day: Breakfast with the host-family, getting familiar with the livelihood of the hosts, for ex. milking cows and feeding the animals. Lunch with the hosts. Afternoon freetime for walking around the village, talking with the hosts and the neigbors or hiking to the nearby hills. Helping to cook the dinner with the hosts.
3rd day: After breakfast, continuing daily farm works or visiting the Maasai market. Cooking lunch with the hosts. Meeting the savings group and planting a tree with them. Cooking and having dinner with the hosts.
4th day: Breakfast, last activities and leaving from the village before lunch time.
Please note that the activities mentioned are not final, and are suspected to change according to the season or the weather.
Program And Price
3 nights / 4 days: 120 eur / adult. Children between 5-15 years old – 50 %, children between 0-4 years old Free.
Awards/Testimonials
Finnish women, october 2018:
“My friend and me stayed in the house of Haruni, the contact person. We had wonderful three days there. We were treated as being part of the family but enjoyed a more repecting position maybe because of our age. We could feel the warm relationship between the members of the family. There were three generations of more than ten persons from the age of four years to the age of maybe 63 years living in nearby houses of the family. The children where treated with love and carefulness. They were so wonderful and chearful, not shy at all, they came to speak to us and liked us very much. We have a lot to learn in Finland of their style of living, Everybody seemed to be happy despite of powerty. Harunis and his wife’s youngist daughter Aisha, 24 years old, also did much work for us, She prepared our meals, warmed hot water in the mornings for the shower and helped the rest of the family in many ways. We liked her very much. Could warmly recommend the village of Lembeni to spend an exceptional and unforgetable vacation in Tanzania.”
