NAI NAMI: Inspiring Storytelling Tour in Nairobi Guided by Street Children
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703 Ratings
Nairobi

With Nai Nami, you have the opportunity to experience the real Nairobi through the eyes of street children. Get inspired by their life stories and learn from their street skills!

Nai Nami is a social enterprise with the aim to give disadvantaged youth from slums a future in life. We do this by building on their street skills and life stories.

Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Nai Nami - Our Streets. Our Stories. - We are called Nai Nami, which means Nairobi with me. Our aim is to give disadvantaged youths from slums a job, income and future in life.
What's Included
  • Personal guide
  • Lunch
  • Soft drinks
  • Local lunch
What's Not Included
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off: The tour starts and ends in front of Bata Shop at Hilton Hotel in Nairobi CBD
Additional Information
  • Wear good shoes (no sandals or high heels)
  • Carry a copy of your passport (main page and the page showing the visa stamp) or your original passport
  • Do not carry any valuables like flashy jewellery
  • Do not bring a camera, since taking pictures in town is not allowed (but your phone is fine)
  • Minimum age: 14 years
Location
Bata
Watalii Lane
In front of the Bata Shoe Shop in City-Hall Way next to the former Hilton Hotel
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Pallur2019
Mar 25, 2024
City walk with Kissmart, Quick and Priest - We were with Kissmart, Quick and Priest. We were so delayed for the 130 tour due to traffic in Rift Valley, but our guide got in touch w them, and they waited for us. They were so nice to talk to and walking around the city with them made me feel safer. We did cut our tour short due to time issues and having to leave for the airport. Their respective stories are so inspirational to others. They are doing great work for the needy in their city. Thank you for being you!
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W6794wvanneh
Mar 15, 2024
Great tour - These former street kids are brilliant! They experienced a lot and we got a lot of insights in their life, the places where they stayed and felt really safe with them. It was great fun! Also the food in the end was great and authentic.
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Pinar_a
Mar 13, 2024
Best walking tour in Nairobi - Would totally recommend! Typhoon and Priest were the best company to explore downtown Nairobi with. I felt safe and had a lot of fun, and learned many new things.
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Mayab2020
Mar 6, 2024
Nai Nami Storytelling Tour in Nairobi: an educational and enriching experience - I was in Nairobi for the 6th United Nations Environment Assembly, and I found about this tour from a friend. I highly recommend it. We were guided by “King”, an inspiring, kind, and intelligent man. King has surmounted incredible odds, growing up as an orphan, living on the streets in the slums of Nairobi since he was 5 years old. They call him the “Street Professor”. I am convinced one day he will be a man of great influence. We saw King in action negotiating with a street beggar (he was checking the man needed help and was not taking advantage of our generosity) and we both agreed he should be working for the UN. It was a really interesting and enriching experience.
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R5983iyelisel
Mar 5, 2024
Great tour, Highly recommend. - Inspiring tour of the real Kenya, the real Nairobi. Amazing tour with Priest, King and many more individuals that accompanied us. We are really thankful for this experience on our first day in Nairobi and would reallu recommend this to foreigners. We walked through the streets, exchanged a lot on all topics, got to know Priest and how he grew up, and even dansed together in the restaurant at the end. Thank you, Priest! Elise & Mumu
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Matthiasww8577ka
Mar 5, 2024
Things you wouldn't imagine about the living of the poorest in Nairobi - The tour was extraordinary and something I would highly recommend to everybody who's interested in an insight view into the life of thousands of Nairobeans that didn't have the luck to be borne on the bright side. I was and I am still deeply impressed from the way our guide King has gone, his calm and convenceing reflections not just about his own life but the situation in his city and country in general, and I also very much like d to see how his fellows and people in downton in general interacted with each other, good guys and a lot of laughings, happy that I did it, sure to do so again...
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Emma_h
Mar 4, 2024
Amazing experience - This was an amazing way to see Nairobi. Quick, Typhoon, Tsunami and the Priest were excellent tour guides. They shared their stories with us as we saw the streets of downtown. The food at the end was a great way to try authentic African cuisine.
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Hater_ua
Feb 23, 2024
Once in a lifetime experience - Wonderful experience once in a lifetime to discover another part of the city, where you can’t go on your own. But with guidance I felt completely safe and secure during the tour. Definitely recommend it
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Antig0nii
Feb 17, 2024
Not to be missed for any reason!!!! - It is an experience you don't want to miss!! Everybody was telling me that the center of Nairobi is dangerous, but I felt right at home with those guys. Walking in the hub of the city, meeting their friends, visiting the market, listening to their amazing stories of survival and companionship in the hard times, riding the matatu, I felt like a local! And last but mot least, the visit to the slum where my guide was born and to the scholl those tours help sustain. A most powerful experience. And reminder of how something so little for us can be of great help to the needy ones. Great respect for those people and their work. I would definitely recommend it to my friends and anyone who visits Nairobi and I will definitely do it again, both for the great fun and the support we are able to give them.
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Pepsimerchant
Mar 12, 2024
Interesting tour - Very interesting walking tour to an area you could not visit on your own. Didn't receive the local lunch mentioned and felt obliged to give some money to buy food for homeless children but overall an interesting tour to see what 'real life' is like for many people.
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