Kahawa
Kahawa means coffee.
Mau Mau leader Dedan Kimathi was born here.
Nyeri lies between the Aberdare Range and the western slopes of Mount Kenya. Coffee and tea farms climb its ridges, and two national parks are close by.
Mau Mau leader Dedan Kimathi was born here. Nyeri is also home to former President Mwai Kibaki and Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai, and Scouting founder Lord Baden-Powell is buried here.
Smallholder coffee and tea, dairy and trade make Nyeri one of Kenya's richest counties per person.
Forest park with the Karuru, Zaina and Gura waterfalls.
Where Princess Elizabeth learned in 1952 that she had become Queen.
Africa's second-highest mountain (5,199 m), a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A national monument drawing tens of thousands of visitors a year.
Baden-Powell's former home, now a small Scouting museum.
Unveiled in 2020 near where Kimathi was captured in 1956.
A forest sanctuary for the rare Hinde's babbler.
Holds the tomb of the Duke of Aosta.
Communities with a historic home in Nyeri. Today people from every part of Kenya live and work here.
Nightlife follows mugithi and Kikuyu benga. Every 22 February, Scouts and Guides gather at Baden-Powell's grave for Founder's Day. Pair mukimo and githeri with Nyeri's highly regarded coffee.
January to March and July to October for game viewing and Mount Kenya climbs.
Nyeri and its neighbours. Tap a county or a place to read about it.
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January to March and July to October for game viewing and Mount Kenya climbs.
Mau Mau leader Dedan Kimathi was born here. Nyeri is also home to former President Mwai Kibaki and Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai, and Scouting founder Lord Baden-Powell is buried here.
Nyeri lies between the Aberdare Range and the western slopes of Mount Kenya. Coffee and tea farms climb its ridges, and two national parks are close by. The county capital is Nyeri, and the 2019 census counted 759,164 people across about 3,325 square kilometres.
ShambaKiambu CountyFounding President Jomo Kenyatta's ancestral home is at Ichaweri. The 1953 Lari massacre was one of the darkest episodes of the Mau Mau war.
NyumbaniMurang'a CountyKikuyu tradition holds that the community began at Mukurwe wa Nyagathanga. Wangu wa Makeri, the only female Kikuyu headman of colonial times, served here.
McheleKirinyaga CountyThe county grows much of Kenya's rice and guards the southern forests of Mount Kenya, a mountain sacred to the Kikuyu.
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