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About us, History of Youth Hostelling
100 Years History of World Hostelling.

The idea of the youth hostel movement was born in Germany way back in 1909 when a German school teacher, the late Richard Schirrmann, concerned that his pupils knew so little about the surrounding countryside. He started the idea of providing simple overnight accommodation for his classes during their explorations of the country. He arranged hikes for his pupils and more permanent accommodation began to be provided in hostels. As these came to be known, the idea spread to other countries in Europe and later to other continents.

The first youth hostels, established in Central Europe from 1909 onwards, were intended to help young people and specially school children to escape from industrial cities to the clear air and refreshing peace of the countryside and to restore their lost contact with nature. With this went an encouragement for walking as a healthy and inexpensive recreation for school children. Such trips in the country could have an important educational purpose. The whole class, with its teacher, could study plant life, animal life, geology, agriculture and many other subjects, bringing to life the book learning of the city to the countryside. For young adults, exploring the country on their own or with one or two friends, seeking an economical bed each night at a youth hostel, there was a valuable development of character and initiative, routes to be planned, maps to be studied, equipment and food to be prepared, then, in the hostel, a share in the domestic duties, from potato peeling to sweeping of floors. It became apparent that an equally valuable function of the youth hostel was to bring together young people of different backgrounds, occupation, religious or political beliefs. In a hostel, the university student or the rich man's son enjoy no advantage over the apprentice or young labourer. It is not money, education or dress with win respect, but friendly camaraderie. The International Youth Hostel Federation, which is the federation of independent national associations, was formed in 1932.
Historical Background of Kenya Youth Hostels Association

The initiative for the launching of the youth hostel movement in Kenya was taken way back to early 1957, when a past president of the International Youth hostel Federation, the late Mr. E. St. John catchpoll visited Kenya and induced certain socially active personalities to start it in Kenya.
Most of those people are no longer with us. Among them were people like Sir Godfrey Rhodes, Dr.L.S.B. Leakey, Mr. Edmund Crosher, Mr. Musa Amalemba, Hon. Jeremiah Nyaga, Mr. G.S, Amar, Sir D.Q. Erskine and Mr. Acharya. They took up the challenge and asked the then Kenya Federation of Social Services to convene a meeting to make suggestions on the possibility of starting a Youth Hostel Association here.
The first party was convened by this Federation on Monday 29th April 1957 (our foundation day) and met in Armstrong house, Delamere Avenue (now Kenyatta Avenue). Nairobi was under Mr. D.Q. Erskine's chairmanship.
This, in effect was the founding of the Kenya Youth Hostel Association (KYHA). These early efforts received a tremendous boost when through the good offices of Mr. St. John Catch Pool; $1500 was donated to Kenya Youth Hostels Association (KYHA) ad-hoc committee in 1959-60 by the Dulverton Trust.
This donation assisted the Youth Hostels Association committee in efforts to develop a good youth hostelling and Camping sites network in Kenya in those early days the donation as it were was not enough to purchase any significant building
In 1966, the then Minister for Health, Hon. John C.N. Osogo, who at the time was the chairman of the Kenya Youth Hostels Association (KYHA) board convinced the International Youth Hostel federation that KYHA was not only alive and kicking but that it was able to fulfil the minimum conditions required to affiliate with the parent body. Then, Kenya, on the same year became part of the International Youth Hostel Federation.
In 1976, Kenya Youth Hostels Association (KYHA) bought an old house on Ralf Bunche road through funds that were generated from membership fees and overnight collections form Nairobi Youth Hostel as well as from the kind support of the International Youth Hostel Federation, The German Youth Hostels, YHA of England, Wales and the Kenya Government.
The Nairobi Youth Hostel in Nairobi, which still stands, became the secretariat of the Kenya Youth Hostels Association and has been redeveloped to match the International Standards of youth hostels as set by the International Youth Hostel Federation today (Hostelling International).
Over the years, the movement has actually spread to all parts of the world in over 60 countries and has a network of about 4500 hostels worldwide.
If you have questions about  Hostelling or need assistance with making a reservation on our safaris travel, please contact James M Gichohi  at            +254722655321 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            +254722655321      end_of_the_skype_highlighting  or email james@yhak.org  To find out more about local giving and volunteer opportunities, click here
Kenya Youth Hostels Association        Website: https://www.yhak.org
Email: info@yhak.org  or  james@yhak.org
Tel             254 -20-2738046 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            254 -20-2738046      end_of_the_skype_highlighting            Cell          +254722655321 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            +254722655321      end_of_the_skype_highlighting +254722656462        
Ralph Bunche Road, PO BOX 48661- 00100, Nairobi, Kenya.
“Promote social tourism “We wish to take the interest of the local population into account as much as possible, to respect their independence and culture, to make every effort to impact the environment as little as possible.
We operate environmentally friendly youth hostels and leisure time programs, geared to the protection of the countryside.
Meet the world in Youth Hostels.

Promote travel in Kenya through KYHA network of hostels and campsites countrywide for use by its members, travellers, and students as well as independent backpackers of all age groups from all over the world.

Why Hostelling! What Are Youth Hostels
What are Youth Hostels?

A Youth Hostel is a building which offers inexpensive accommodation to young people exploring their country or the world, it also provides a meeting place in which young people of different social back ground, and opinion and nationality can meet and come to know each other.
  Its function is educational in the widest sense of the world. Our greatest source of energy and commitment comes from those who have stayed in our youth hostels and camping sites in Kenya thereby knowing the importance of maintaining and strengthening the youth hostels & Safari tents in Kenya for more budget travel.  Just as the youth hostels are there for you when you need them, we hope you will be there for the hostels and camping sites now, when our potential is so exciting.
  If you can give your time to live for some overnight stays while you adventure and explore our beautiful country Kenya, we’ll be grateful to have your support. Youth Hostels and Camping sites offer dormitory-style rooms with separate quarters for men and women. Some youth hostels & Camping sites also have private family and couples rooms. All youth hostels provide a blanket and pillow. Linens are often included in the price, or available for rental in some youth hostels & safari camps.            
  Most hostels & camp sites offer fully equipped self- catering kitchens or cafeterias, dining areas, secure storage and common rooms for relaxing and socializing with other travellers. Some hostels & safari camps have laundry facilities, travel libraries and concierge service. There are a few that even have swimming pools, Youth Hostels our mission is "to help all, especially the young, gain a greater understanding of the world and its people through hostelling." The mission is accomplished through our extensive network of youth hostels, Camps, Safari tented camps offering a wide-range of Travel and adventure tour programs and activities.

  A founder of the Youth Hostels Network Richard Shirmann said: "Every forest, every valley, every flower, every mountain, every village and every city are separate pages of your Motherland.” You should read these pages in your own experience and not in books.
  The Earth is huge. When you travel, you see the details, and this is the biggest joy on the planet. For this purpose we are now opening Youth Hostels and Safari Camping sites.
  However, you also need to travel outside your country, to meet your neighbours, to know them better and to appreciate those who speak other language and have different history. To do this, I am now calling upon you, our friends and neighbours, to open Youth Hostels & Camping sites and to do it for all young people on the Earth. They must become places of peace and comfort for the good of all humanity.                           
Trade mark "Youth Tourism & Youth Hostels of Kenya" creates own youth hostels & camp sites chain and co-operate them with youth hostels in Kenya like tour operator, marketing adviser and activities coordinator. We offer to our clients Hostel clients with Adventure safari tours, voluntravel programs which are based on accommodation in youth hostels or and safari camping sites in Kenya.          
  Whatever your travel interests are, you will find plenty of activities to do in Kenya click on this link www.africahomeadventure.com  you can send an email: info@africahomeadventure.com this link will show you some of the suggestions with a wide choice of Things to see and do in Kenya. This information will also help you plan a fantastic holiday in Kenya “Karibu --- Welcome”.

                           Why Hostelling
For over 100 years, youth hostels have been providing budget travellers with more than just affordable lodgings.
Youth Hostels give welcoming smiles to its visitor traveller’s unknown place – they host new friends to make old friends to greet – they’re the best way to travel.  And our key youth hostels and tented safari camping sites offer local programs for foreign and domestic travellers a chance to present an unparalleled introduction to a community. 
These opportunities provide us and our foreign guests a way to explore our country learn about our culture and traditions.  They celebrate our differences and honour our commonalities.
Youth Hostels & Camping sites in Kenya are giving back to our great nation.
Is all about enjoying the outdoor life in Kenya. Getting closer to Nature never means roughing it.
We offer a wide range of comfortable, clean, safe and stylish accommodation, thereby allowing you to decide exactly how much of luxury you want to add.
Our motto is to ensure that everyone enjoys the comforts of modern life and the beauty of the great outdoors
And today, when the benefits of hostelling are greater than ever, Hostelling International in Kenya  is conducting a major campaign for significant support to Voluntourism  https://www.kvcdp.org/volunTravel.php to help youth hostel members plan their cheap safaris  kenya budget safari packages and to promote. Hostelling
  Our greatest source of energy and commitment comes from those who have stayed in our youth hostels and camping sites in Kenya thereby knowing the importance of maintaining and strengthening the youth hostels & Safari tents in Kenya for more budget travel.  Just as the youth hostels are there for you when you need them, we hope you will be there for the hostels and camping sites now, when our potential is so exciting.
  If you can give your time to live for some overnight stays while you adventure and explore our beautiful country Kenya, we’ll be grateful to have your support. If your abilities are even greater than that, please consider us at an International level by being our good ambassador tells the stories or write articles about us on the good things hostelling in Kenya and yha-kenya travel offers to travellers. Hostelling and travel in Kenya will grow secure our future success.  If you have questions about  Hostelling or need assistance with making a reservation on our safaris travel, please contact James M Gichohi  at  or email james@yhak.org  To find out more about local giving and volunteer opportunities, click here
  Kenya Youth Hostels Association        Website: https://www.yhak.org
Email: info@yhak.org  or  james@yhak.org
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Mount Kenya Adventure Trekking Tours.
Why Travel With Us
There is a wide choice of adventure travel programs in Kenya out there for you and your family that yha travel has for you.  We’re here to help you experience it.  We take a personal interest in planning your ideal holiday and are interested in ensuring that the trip we custom-craft especially for you takes into account your entire group, family or as an independent traveller. 
Do you want to transform your travel dreams into exciting holidays but don’t know where to start?
Have you spent hours searching the web for travel options in Kenya yet still feel confused?
Do you long for a unique Kenya adventure to unite your family in a phenomenal shared experience?
Do you want someone you can trust to plan your holiday trip in the style and value you expect?
Do you want a peace of mind, security and comfort throughout your trip, knowing that someone is on call for any issues that may arise?
We at yha travel Kenya create extraordinary, unique experiences for core and multi-generational family travel, for fathers and sons who want to bond, or “just for the girls”, as well as for wider family reunions. After all, your adventure is our commitment at a pocket friendly deal!
Through our extensive network with local operators, coordinators and private guides, all contributing to native conservation efforts, we design journeys of every kind:
Wilderness and Wildlife: Whatever your passion is for Kenya adventure travel the possibilities are endless to.
Culture, History and Archaeology: There’s no better way to get to the true heart of a country than through its people and history, to uncover different ways of life, stay with local peoples or tribes, visits to museums and Kenya national archives, encounter major sites of antiquity and little known gems.  Experience the nomad’s life in Kenya when visiting Masai mara, turukana, samburu to mention but a few, and the celebrated site of the Kenya’s.
Stay with the locals and join in to some of Kenya’s best festivals and events that take place in various regions in Kenya these are the international camel derby, bull fighting in western Kenya, the dugong festival in lamu, donkey race, music festival among many others.
Biking, Hiking and Trekking :  There are great ways to discover Kenya the amazing variety of peoples and cultures that make up our country.  Kenya offers a remarkable choice for leisurely holidays of this kind in the  Kenyan beautiful beach in the  coast, The rift valley and its escarpments ,lakes, wildlife and just a few of the destinations offering a wide range of possibilities for being outdoors in natural environments, and there’s nothing that can beat Kenya as  a family destination.
Why Travel with Us Then ?
You know your neighbours, the ones who’ve just returned from their family vacation full of energy and smiles?  They can’t stop oohing and aahing about their Kenya adventures how they biked, trekked, hiked, danced, ate, fishing and sailed at lakes naivasha and victoria .The kids just loved it!  You’re happy for them and just a bit jealous (okay, extremely jealous) and immediately start searching the web for active vacations.
Well, this is our answer to the question why travel with us it’s not just the in-depth planning, the meticulous organization, the extraordinary journey, or the experience of hiking, biking and sailing.  It’s not just the incredible adventures or the remarkable surprises it’s all this’s for the feeling you’re left with, the energy you take home with you.  The exhilaration, the enlightenment.
Then how can you afford to miss all this!!!! Book your next holiday with us YHA Travel & Holiday Activities
Family Holidays
YHA Kenya helps to plan for all travellers of all walks of life with some very interesting travel offers like cheap accommodations in great family friendly youth hostels and safari camping sites in kenya .
Yha kenya Travel organises these best kenya  travel programs for children and youth, individual guests, group travel to interesting places rich in Culture, Nature, Fun and Adventure.
Adventure Programs
Whether school groups or sports groups, families or single travellers, culture or art of living in Kenya, everyone find their favourite place.
If you are looking forward to exciting days, to relax to enjoy, discovering, we offer you a wide variety of experience and programs that let you know the country and its people better or use our component offerings and to make your stay together individually.
School trips.
The nose is not stuck in the books but in the fresh air. Instead of dull theory, the plump colourful life is on the schedule. Whether adventurous or educationally oriented adventure camp musical and creative workshops that explore regional history and ecology project learning rarely been so exciting in our programs we take a lot of organisational work from the teacher.
We pick out the best in children and adolescents. Team  spirit confidence in the group. The class is growing together, with the confidence of the individual grows.
Dynamic that is hard to beat. Class made.
     MT. KENYA TREKKING TOURS  (Save 5% on any of these packages)
Are you travelling to Kenya and Looking for affordable adventure Mount Kenya Climbing activities like walking, hiking exploring or even trekking tours?  YHA- Kenya travel has some of the best bargains for families, groups or independent travellers who are in search for safari adventures in Mount Kenya.
  Kenya youth hostels travel section is ready to and make your mountaineering expedition fun, fulfilling , memorable and enjoyable. YHA-Kenya travel section are in partnership with one of the best tour operator and activity provider African Home Adventure Safaris which is recognised by the Kenya Association of Tour Operator (KATO)
    We will always get you the best climbing safari tour for your time of travel in Kenya! travelling in and around Mount Kenya with your yha Hostelling membership to enable you enjoy and save on great deals provided for on any trekking tour of Mount Kenya.
    Responsible travel initiative is Responsible Tourism for Mount Kenya Climbers become a responsible traveller with the youth hostels mountaineering travel tree planting programs. We hope that you will have fun, enjoy travelling in and around Kenya with your yha membership for great deals with Kenya youth hostels travel ” Happy Hostelling”. 
  Mt.Kenya is Africa’s second highest mountain after Kilimanjaro. This extinct volcano is estimated to be 2.5 million years old. Time has taken its toll on the former, reducing the peak from 6500m to 5199 m today, while nature’s untiring eroding agents long ago eroded the crater.
  Mt. Kenya is located 180km north of Nairobi within the Mount Kenya National park. The park protected area 3200m above sea level and was established in 1949 and covers an area of 715 sq km. The mountain comprised of three main zones: - the rocky peak zone, the afro-alpine moorland with it’s scattering of giant vegetation and the extensive tower slope covered with mountain forest and a bamboo there are over 81plant species. Any fit and prepared person can reach point Lenana, the so-called trekker’s peak; the summit has the twin peaks of 5199m Batian and Nelion and is considered more technically challenging than the higher Mt Kilimanjaro at 5894m.
Choose between Sirimon-Chogoria and Naro Moru Routes.
Mt. Kenya National Park.
Mount Kenya, at an altitude of 5199 [17058ft] the country's highest mountain, has its higher slope permanently covered in snow and ice, even though it sits astride the equator.  The National park comprises the mountain above the 320m [10,500ft] contour plus two salient astride the Naro moru and the Sirimon routes.
  The mountain consists of three peaks the Batian [the highest] Nelion and Lenana. Of these peaks, the original hard center core is all that remains; the bulk of the volcano has been eroded away with time.  These are true walk on Mount Kenya trips ,we will always get you the best walking tours in mount Kenya for your time of travel in Kenya !
Choose from below  links a program of your choice
7 DAYS- SIRIMON OUT NARO MORU ROUTE
5 DAYS UP SIRIMON/DOWN CHOGORIA
MT KENYA CLIMBING ROUTES 4 DAYS DIRECT SAFARI TO MT. KENYA
6 DAYS SIRIMON OUT CHOGORIA BEST ROUTE TO CLIMB POINT LENANA 
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Website: https://www.yhak.org
Email:   travel@yhak.org  
Tel/Fax:              254 20 2726011                     +254722655321                    +254722760661     
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Enchoro Walking safaris.

Would you prefer to spend your Kenyan safari trip walking in areas that are not visited by mass tourists rather than being cooped up in a vehicle! Do you long for genuine one-on-one contact with competent and experienced Masai guide who would take your safari experience beyond the "Big Five”? If your answer is yes, then this activity is just for you!

Enchoro Wildlife Camp Walking safaris activity involves an adventurous trek in the Masai Mara ecosystem giving you a chance to see the animals in a close view. This however, is NOT allowed in the Masai Mara National Reserve, but is permitted in the conservancies and group ranches that border the Masai Mara National Reserve.

The walks are conducted by specially trained Masai guides who explain the way of the Masai culture displaying their skills in animal tracking and sharing their immense knowledge on the wildlife.

The Olo-olaimutia hills which offers a refreshing scenic views from above and below, is perfect for climbing and hiking.

The environs are serene, relaxing with soothing fresh air an ideal gateway for visitors seeking a romantic view with their loved ones.

Trekking is also popular under the stewardship of our trained local guides for which you experience a first-hand experience of the terrain and a chance to view wildlife and Mara scenic views at a close range.

Evening nature walks at the Olo-olaimutia hills are memorable. They offer a great opportunity for visitors to enjoy the cool breeze and beautiful cloud cover over the setting sun view to die for as visitor’s view the giant red –orange majestic sunset that slowly disappears into the horizon, amidst the mooing cows as they retire to their sheds.

If you like to enjoy a little adventure try a walking safari with our Enchoro wildlife camp Masai guided safari.

We assure you of your safety and comfort always.

For more information and reservations, please contact us.

Head Office, Nairobi International Youth Hostel Building Ralph Bunche Road, Upper Hill. Po box 4473-00200, Nairobi- Kenya. Tel 254 20 2726011 +254 20 2711217 Cell. +254 722655321 +254 710322787 + 254 722760661
  Email: info@enchorowildlifecamp.com
  Website: https://www.enchorowildlifecamp.com