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Travel Tips

You intend to travel to a Kenya? Here are some useful tips that may save you some time during the last minute rush.

Documents

Confirm your that your equipment, insurance and documents like passports, visas, immunization and medical sheets, are in order before travel.

Visa

Ensure you have the right visa for your visit. Briefly, Kenya has two types of visas, single entry and multiple entry. Take a multiple entry visa if you will be travelling back and forth between Kenya and the sorrounding countries for more on this check here.

Cancellation policies

Ensure you understand the travel agents cancelllation policies, the terms and conditions of service,

Frequent flier miles

If you plan to travel frequently by plane, check out your airline's frequent flyer miles. If such a facility exists, sign up, it will save you lots of your hard earned cash in the long run.

Changing money

Please please please, do not change you money at the points of entry! Either change it in your country or in Banks and bureaus in the country you are visiting. The points of entry are tricky because they charge high fees as they assume that you are desperate.

Beware

Thieves, con men, raiders all exist in Kenya, just like in other areas of the world. You may never encounter them especially if you book your tours through tour operators, however, it should not be a surprise to you. The most important thing, know where your embassy exists, that way, you may contact them if everything else fails.

Health

Visitors over 1 year of age entering Kenya from yellow fever infected areas require yellow fever international certificate of vaccination. Exemptions are made for visitors arriving from non-endemic areas such as Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand.

Registration with your embassy

Remember to register with your embassy while in Kenya. This will inform the embassy of your whereabouts and may be of help in case of emergencies. Registration is particularly important for those who plan to stay in a country longer than one month, or who will travel to:

 

  • A country that is experiencing civil unrest, has an unstable political climate, or is undergoing a natural disaster, such as an earthquake or a hurricane.
  • A country where there are no U.S. officials. In such cases, you should register at the U.S. embassy or consulate in an adjacent country, leave an itinerary with the Consular Section, ask about conditions in the country that you will visit and ask about the third country that may represent U.S. interests there.
If you are traveling with an escorted tour to areas experiencing political uncertainty or other problems, find out if your tour operator is registering your trip through the State Department’s travel registration web site . If it is not, or if you are traveling on your own, you can still register with the nearest U.S. embassy or consulate through the State Department’s travel registration web site .

 

source: http://travel.state.gov