Village life · Full day
Village Walk
A full day inside village life: the polygamous lifestyle, marriage systems, and a farming season calendar, alongside visits to ecological and sacred sites.
- Total (group)
- Ksh 25,650
- Arrival
- 9:00am
- Meeting point
- Mkupe Jetty
What's included
- Lifestyle and culture, including marriage systems
- The farming season calendar, explained by a local farmer
- Brief on the kayas and other ecological sites
- Women's social groups and their work
- Medicinal men and women, and herbal curing
- Food preparation, pounding and winnowing, with beading and weaving to try
How the day runs
From Mkupe at 9:00am, the walk moves between homes, farms, shrines and kayas, with hands-on time pounding, winnowing, beading and weaving, and a local dance to close.
Cost breakdown
Based on a group.
| Boat (from Mkupe) | Ksh 6,000 |
| Marriage / polygamous facilitation | Ksh 2,000 |
| Shrines, kayas, madzi ga munyu | Ksh 4,000 |
| Local farmer | Ksh 1,000 |
| Pounding, winnowing, grating & cashew nut preparation | Ksh 4,000 |
| Beading and weaving | Ksh 1,000 |
| Lunch | Ksh 500 |
| Mangrove planting (Ksh 100 per seedling) | Ksh 100 |
| Madafu (fresh coconut) | Ksh 50 |
| Tour guide | Ksh 1,000 |
| 1 local dance | Ksh 6,000 |
| Total | Ksh 25,650 |
Book this experience
Send an enquiry with your dates and group size and a guide will confirm boat transport, guide and dance availability, and the full cost breakdown.
Book a TourGood to know
Sacred sites have protocols, your guide will brief you on where photography is welcome.