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6 Days Kenya Cultural Tour: The Wizzard Trip

This has been voted one of the best Kenya cultural tours due to its uniqueness in terms of adventure, experience, encounters and artifacts.

It involves a visit to local witch doctors and medicine men, the legion Maria sect, blacksmiths, fishing, wizzard tracking activities and taking part in day to day activities of the local Luo community.

You will enjoy the wonderful sceneries of this interior village as you mingle with friendly locals and learn much more about their culture.

ACCOMMODATION:

The accommodation will be in neatly built traditional Luo huts, with wholesome ventilation and roof-thatched with grass and smeared with a mixture of carefully selected natural soil
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 The Program:
 

Day 1: Nairobi- Kisumu

After an early morning breakfast, leave Nairobi for Kisumu via Nakuru and Kericho tea plantations with time to walk in the tea estates and especially the renowned Tea Hotel to see leaves being picked (it's in the center of estates surrounded by manicured lawns]. After lunch, proceed to Kisumu, a town on the shores of L. Victoria ( the biggest fresh water lake in Africa : second the world over). Dinner and night at a Kisumu Hotel.

Day 2: Kisumu- Kit Mikayi- Wagusu

After breakfast, depart your hotel and drive 29km towards Kisumu-Bondo road Leave the area in the afternoon, arriving Wagusu, late in the evening for dinner and overnight.

Day 3: Wagusu locality

Try staying up late at night or waking up at dawn time to chance encountering wizzards in the village(optional) or wake up for breakfast in the morning and visit one of the local witch doctors( pre-arranged at extra cost). In the afternoon,visit One of the scarce luo elders for the tales of the origin and cultures of the luo tribes. Dinner and overnight in Wagusu village.

Day 4: Wagusu - Abimbo

Visit an adjacent village to see witness a popular local pilgrimage church for followers of the Legio Maria sect who believe in fasting for several weeks at a time and cleanse the sick with a special crystal clear water from a sacred pond/rock. Their mass services go for long hours and if you would like to take part in their prayer then prepare to leave late afternoon.Dinner and overnight in Abimbo or Wagusu.

Day 5: Abimbo/Wagusu

Spend the whole day taking part in different practical activities with the locals and even interacting with them as this would give you more chances of getting more information from them. Try manual cow milking, or hire a boat and go fishing, visit local brewing homes and ask them how they acquired their skills through apprenticeship.  Dinner and overnight in Wagusu.

Day 6: Wagusu - Nairobi

After breakfast, leave Wagusu for Nairobi arriving in the evening.

 
What is included

1: Pick Up from your Nairobi or Kisumu hotel
2: Transport in a private 4*4 suzuki vehicle  or saloon car.
3: Full board accommodation in basic hotel or huts in the village.
4: Entrance fees to the attarction sites
5: Full-time experienced Driver/Guide.
6: Visit to local witch doctors.
7: One way flight from Kisumu to Nairobi.