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Tourist Information

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Immigration Health Customs
Currency Culture  
Immigration:
Passport: Required - with certain exceptions (check with your travel agent or Kenya embassy). Minors up to age 16 years travelling alone require their own passport.
Visa: Required (including minors traveling on a parent's passport) - except for nationals of Kenya, holders of a re-entry permit or Kenya Residents Certificate, British passport holders with right of abode in the United Kingdom, nationals of South Africa (30 day permit issued on arrival), nationals of certain countries (check with your travel agent or Kenya embassy).
Visa fee: Payable in foreign currency (US$) Varies between US$10 - 30
 
Health:
Required - Vaccination Certificate against Yellow Fever if arriving in Kenya from abroad within 6 days after leaving or transiting a designated infected area. Check with your travel agent.
Exempt - Children under 1 year old.
Recommendations:
Yellow Fever for visitors to any area outside the main cities (except for children under 1 year old).
Anti-Malaria precautions.
 
Customs:
Free import (by passengers 16 years and older) of:
1/2lb tobacco or 200 cigarettes, 1 bottle alcoholic beverages, 1 pint perfume.
Fire arms require a police permit.
Prohibited: fruit, plants and seeds, imitation firearms (children toy pistols, etc).
 
Currency:
Import: Allowed
RESIDENTS of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda - Up to KES200 plus unlimited foreign currency.
NON-RESIDENTS - Local currency prohibited, foreign currency unlimited.
Export: Allowed:
RESIDENTS of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda - Up to KES200 plus restricted amounts of foreign currency (excluding journeys to Tanzania and Uganda).
NON-RESIDENTS - Local currency prohibited, foreign currency limited to that endorsed in the passport on entry.
 
Culture:
There are over 70 tribal groups amongst the Africans in Kenya.
English and Swahili are the main languages spoken throughout the country, however, there are many other tribal languages. Another language you might come across is Sheng, spoken by the younger members of society. Sheng is a mixture of Swahili and English along with a few other languages.