Chai
Chai means tea.
Kericho is Kenya's best-known tea region, and tea is one of the country's top exports.
Kericho sits about 2,000 metres up on the edge of the Mau Forest. Rain falls all year, keeping its tea estates bright green. It is the heartland of the Kipsigis, the largest Kalenjin group.
Kericho is Kenya's best-known tea region, and tea is one of the country's top exports. The town also has Africa's largest Sikh Gurdwara.
Tea is king, grown on large estates and smallholdings, followed by coffee, sugarcane, maize and dairy.
Walk the tea rows and see how leaf becomes cup.
Indigenous trees and bamboo among the tea fields.
A nature trail where vervet monkeys roam freely.
The site where fossils of the ancient ape Kenyapithecus were found.
Kipsigis artefacts and heritage.
Community rainforest with monkeys, rock hikes and camping.
East Africa's largest native montane forest.
Communities with a historic home in Kericho. Today people from every part of Kenya live and work here.
Kipsigis song traditions helped give rise to Kalenjin pop music. The signature dish is mursik, milk fermented in a gourd, eaten with finger-millet ugali. The area is also famous for distance runners.
Kericho is green all year, but December–February and June–September are drier for estate walks.
Kericho and its neighbours. Tap a county or a place to read about it.
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Kericho is green all year, but December–February and June–September are drier for estate walks.
Kericho is Kenya's best-known tea region, and tea is one of the country's top exports. The town also has Africa's largest Sikh Gurdwara.
Kericho sits about 2,000 metres up on the edge of the Mau Forest. Rain falls all year, keeping its tea estates bright green. It is the heartland of the Kipsigis, the largest Kalenjin group. The county capital is Kericho, and the 2019 census counted 901,777 people across about 2,455 square kilometres.
TemboKajiado CountyAmboseli is one of the world's best places to see free-roaming elephants. Its ecosystem has been a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1991.
NyikaNarok CountyThe Maasai Mara is Kenya's most famous safari destination and the stage for the Great Migration.
ChanzoBomet CountyBomet holds the headwaters of the Mara River, which keeps the Maasai Mara alive. It also launched Kenya's tea tourism experience.
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