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Suburb of Kisumu, Kenya

Nyalenda

Nyalenda is an established slum suburb of Kenya's third largest city Kisumu.

The place

Nyalenda is an established slum suburb of Kenya's third largest city Kisumu. It is also an electoral ward in the Kisumu Town East Constituency.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Nyalenda

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.

  1. 01
    Kisumu Museum

    The Kisumu Museum is a museum located in Kisumu, Kenya. Its exhibits focus on the natural and cultural history of Western Kenya.

    2.2 km · Kenyan museum · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Mosque of Jesus Christ Son of Mary

    The Mosque of Jesus Son of Mary is a mosque in Kirinyaga West, Kirinyaga County, Kenya.

    3.4 km · mosque in Kirinyaga West, Kirinyaga, Kenya · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Great Lakes University of Kisumu

    Great Lakes University of Kisumu is a Kenyan private chartered university. The idea of establishing the Great Lakes University of Kisumu originated in the Tropical Institute of Community Health and Development in Africa, which spearheaded the application for authority to operate as a university.

    2.4 km · private university in Kenya (IAU-006774) · 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 Nyalenda

Airports
Kisumu (KIS), 6 km · Eldoret (EDL), 80 km · Entebbe (EBB), 258 km
  • Eldoret → Nyalenda
    110 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · KSh710–940
  • Nairobi → Nyalenda
    330 km · quickest by road, 7h 25m · KSh2,030–2,700
  • Mombasa → Nyalenda
    767 km · quickest by air, 8h 54m · KSh10,890–16,770
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Nyalenda

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 Nyalenda. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    EntebbeUG

    9 ways of moving, 37 sources

    256 km
  2. 02
    Ssese IslandsUG

    11 ways of moving, 14 sources

    281 km
  3. 03
    Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkUG

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    570 km
  4. 04
    Diani BeachKE

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    709 km
  5. 05
    LamuKE

    9 ways of moving, 27 sources

    725 km

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

Around it

Next door to Nyalenda

Nyalenda is 3 km from Kisumu, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.