Malindi Town and Gedi ruins Tour

The Malindi Town and Gedi ruins Tour takes you to Malindi across the new Mtwapa and Kilifi bridges to visit the Gedi ruins a 12th Century Swahili village that was mysteriously abandoned some 600 years ago due to unknown causes. Despite Gedi’s close proximity to Malindi; it was never a focus of any European activity. In fact, Gedi was allegedly an invisible town never mentioned in any manuscripts or writing. Swahili Muslims established a mosque, homes and ran the town

Gedi ruins is now a National Museum, and the ruins are heavily overgrown with beautiful indigenous forest trees, baobabs and tamarind. Well worth a walk and a visit. Look out for Syke’s Monkeys, and the Golden Rumped Elephant Shrew can also be seen here. A quiet, careful look in some of the old wells can turn out the odd owl, too.

Continue to Malindi town where you will see narrow alleys in the old part of town where the old houses have been lived in for centuries. One of the oldest East African churches still stands strong; the Church of St. Francis Xavier still stands strong across from Vasco da Gama’s pillar, where he carved the Christian cross. Also extant is the Juma’a mosque, which was misused as a haven for slave trading until mid 1870’s Optional Visit to the Marine Park to view marine life in a glass-bottomed boat. After lunch in a local restaurant visit the Snake Farm and the Falconry. Thereafter drive back to Mombasa arriving in the evening.