"Kitale museum" Kitale Things to Do Tip by sachara

Kitale is not only a good base to visit Mount Elgon National Park and Saiwa Swamp National Park, but the town itself had also something to offer like the Kitale Museum.

In the spacious gardens with labelled indigenous trees you can find a gallery exhibiting an ethnographic collection. There are also displays of animals, birds, reptiles and insects of the area. Another attraction of the museum is the snakepark.

In the museum area you can see also a display of traditional homesteads of the Lubya, Nandi, Luo and Sabaot. And you can walk a nature trail, where you can watch the birdlife and the original forest, that covered once this area.

Adjacent to the Kitale Museum is theOlaf Palme Agroforestry Centre with an indigenous tree nursery, an arboretum, educational displays and agro-forestry demonstrations.

Address: Kitale Museum PO Box 1219 Kitale
Directions: The Kitale museum is near the towncentre east of the railwaystation at the Eldoret road.
Phone: 0325 20670