Kakamega
Kakamega is a town in western Kenya lying about 30 km north of the Equator.
Kakamega is a town in western Kenya lying about 30 km north of the Equator. It is the headquarters of Kakamega County that has a population of 1,867,579. The town has an urban population of 107,227.
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Worth seeing in and around Kakamega
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Roman Catholic Diocese of Kakamega
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kakamega ) is a diocese located in the city of Kakamega in the ecclesiastical province of Kisumu in Kenya.
1 km · diocese of the Catholic Church · Wikipedia - 02Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology
Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology or MMUST, formerly Western University College of Science and Technology, is a profit public university in Kenya. The university is named after Masinde Muliro, a Kenyan politician who helped found the institution.
1.4 km · public university in Kenya · Wikipedia - 03Bukhungu Stadium
The Bukhungu Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kakamega, Kenya. It used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Western Stima of the Kenyan Premier League.
1.1 km · building in Kenya · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
The city has no classic tourist attractions, but offers small-town African life and bustling activity in the streets and small shops.
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Where to eat
- 01Franky Grill
Off Kakamega-Mumias Road, mobile phone), reservation@frankahotel.com.
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Getting to Kakamega
- Airports
- Kisumu (KIS), 41 km · Eldoret (EDL), 56 km · Entebbe (EBB), 258 km
- Stations
- Kakamega Airport, 3.9 km
- Kisumu → Kakamega43 km · quickest by road, 57 min · KSh235–310
- Eldoret → Kakamega63 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · KSh485–650
- Nairobi → Kakamega288 km · quickest by road, 6h 19m · KSh1,880–2,500
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Kakamega
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kakamega. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundAs is the case everywhere in Kenya, motorbike taxis and tuk-tuks are the cheapest and fastest means of transport.
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Next door to Kakamega
Kakamega is 43 km from Kisumu, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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