Kware, Nairobi
Kware is a slum neighbourhood in Embakasi within the city of Nairobi.
Kware is a slum neighbourhood in Embakasi within the city of Nairobi. Located in the larger Eastlands area of Nairobi, it is approximately 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) east of the central business district. It borders the Mukuru slums.Initially, Kware was predominantly an informal settlement but over the years part Kware and Pipeline have earned a reputation for their poor infrastructure, coupled with overcrowded flats, narrow streets, littering, as well as its poor drainage system.
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Worth seeing in and around Kware, Nairobi
One place 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.
- 01Nairobi Kenya Temple
The Nairobi Kenya Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located in Nairobi, Kenya. Announced on April 2, 2017, by church president Thomas S. Monson during general conference.
2.4 km · LDS Church temple (2025) · Wikipedia
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Getting to Kware, Nairobi
- Airports
- Jomo Kenyatta (NBO), 4 km · Kilimanjaro (JRO), 236 km · Eldoret (EDL), 265 km
- Eldoret → Kware, Nairobi272 km · quickest by air, 4h 6m · KSh6,280–9,740
- Kisumu → Kware, Nairobi272 km · quickest by air, 3h 37m · KSh5,790–8,980
- Mombasa → Kware, Nairobi434 km · quickest by air, 4h 3m · KSh6,920–10,740
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No local-transport research exists yet for Kware, Nairobi
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 Kware, Nairobi. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundYou will be most comfortable in a four-wheel-drive, van, jeep, or truck, as the terrain remains natural and rough.
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Next door to Kware, Nairobi
Kware, Nairobi is 9 km from Nairobi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Mukuru kwa Njengainformal settlement in the Embakasi area of Nairobi1.1 km
- Pipeline, Nairobislum-like residential neighbourhood in Embakasi, Nairobi1.1 km
- Makadararesidential neighbourhood in Nairobi2.8 km
- Nyayo Estategated community in Embakasi in the city of Nairobi2.2 km
- Umoja, Nairobiresidential suburb in Eastlands area of Nairobi3.6 km
- Mukuru slumsinformal settlement in Nairobi City, Kenya1.8 km