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Mowlem, Nairobi

Mowlem is a neighbourhood in the city of Nairobi.

Mowlem, Nairobi
Mowlem, Nairobi · Antony Trivet (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The place

Mowlem is a neighbourhood in the city of Nairobi. It is approximately 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) east of the central business district of Nairobi.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mowlem, Nairobi

2 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.

  1. 01
    Ruaraka Stadium

    Ruaraka Stadium, also known as Ruaraka Grounds, is a multi-purpose stadium in Nairobi, Kenya. It used mostly for football matches and is the primary home stadium of Tusker F.C. The stadium holds 4,000 people.

    3.8 km · building in Kenya · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Nairobi 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.

    3.5 km · LDS Church temple (2025) · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Mowlem, Nairobi

Airports
Jomo Kenyatta (NBO), 7 km · Kilimanjaro (JRO), 241 km · Eldoret (EDL), 262 km
  • Eldoret → Mowlem, Nairobi
    269 km · quickest by air, 4h 10m · KSh6,410–9,950
  • Kisumu → Mowlem, Nairobi
    270 km · quickest by air, 3h 41m · KSh5,920–9,190
  • Mombasa → Mowlem, Nairobi
    437 km · quickest by air, 4h 7m · KSh7,050–10,940
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mowlem, 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 Mowlem, Nairobi. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inMatatus (11- to 18-seater minibuses) and shuttles (6-seater cars) are convenient, inexpensive (and often the only) modes of public transport for connecting Nairobi with towns and tourist destinations in the Rift Valley and Central Highlands such as Naivasha, Nyeri, Nanyuki, Isiolo, and Thika.
  • Get inMatatus can be obtained from the River Road area.
  • Get inExtreme caution should be exercised in this area because petty theft is a major concern; avoid showing valuables such as mobile phones, even while in the matatu (see safety section below).
  • Get inThe best method of connecting to a matatu is to arrange for a taxi to drop you off and pick you up directly at the location of the matatu that you are boarding or alighting from.
  • Get inIf you're boarding a matatu from Nairobi, tell the taxi driver your destination and they will drop you off at the correct location.

From Wikivoyage: Nairobi, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Diani BeachKE

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    451 km
  2. 02
    LamuKE

    9 ways of moving, 27 sources

    461 km
  3. 03
    EntebbeUG

    9 ways of moving, 37 sources

    514 km
  4. 04
    Ssese IslandsUG

    11 ways of moving, 14 sources

    525 km
  5. 05
    Pemba IslandTZ

    7 ways of moving, 10 sources

    537 km

If you know how people move in Mowlem, Nairobi – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Mowlem, Nairobi

Mowlem, Nairobi is 9 km from Nairobi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.