June 2011
Trekking Mt Kenya
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Kenya Youth Hostels Travel programs
Yha – Kenya Travel Programs
YHA-Kenya Travel in conjunction with Kenya’s best tour operator and activity provider has developed an excellent range of short term budget travel package s,volunteer programs designed for independent and small groups adventures for travellers of all ages. Yha-travel I /3 Nights 4 Days Maasai Mara and Lake Nakuru Camping
Day 1: Nairobi/Masaai Mara
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Day 2: Masaai Mara.
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Day 3: Masaai Mara/L.Nakuru
Day 4: Nakuru/Nairobi
Hostelling Membership & Discounts
Join YHA now ! Discover great locations worldwide, affordable, comfortable, good value, friendly & welcoming youth hostels.
Membership to Hostelling International is required to participate in any Youth Hostels activities.
This membership gives you access to over 4200 Youth Hostels all over the world for one year.
If you are a foreigner, Become a member of your National Youth Hostels Association (find the address in www.hihostels.com .
If you cannot become a member in your country, you will pay the membership once you arrive at the Nairobi International Youth Hostel on Ralph Bunche Road, Telephone no 254-20- 2738046 email info@yhak.org visit web www.yhak.org
Or Po Box 48661-00100 GPO Nairobi, Kenya.
| Membership Subscription/Year | Kshs | USD | Eur |
| Kenya Local Membership | 200 | 0 | 0 |
| Group Membership | 1000 | 0 | 0 |
| Kenya Junior Under 17 Years | 100 | 0 | 0 |
| International full | 1000 | 0 | 0 |
If you would like to be a member join now and you will have access to Discounts raging from 5 – 10% on travel,activities,accommodation and transport in kenya.Click here
Do you want to join a network of hostels in Kenya and be part of the Hostelling International ?
Kenya Youth Hostels Association has been trying to set up a chain of youth hostels and camping sites in kenya. The existing youth hostels are too far apart for easy travelling by one’s own efforts. We reckon a day’s hike to be 10 to 20 miles and a day’s cycle ride to be 40 to 80 miles. A chain from Mombasa via Nairobi to Lake Turkana would therefore require hostels at, say every small town en route in addition to those already established and exists. There is the need to circuit around all corners of the Republic of Kenya.
We also envisage to a greater adventure a cross borders of Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi , Congo and south Sudan are on the move already.
What is Required
To start a youth hostel or a campsite, you need a simple overnight accommodation with a constant water supply, such as a a small building near a farmstead. The farmer or wife will be appointed warden, and will be asked to see that the hut is secure against theft and left clean and tidy by the hoteliers when they leave.
Are you interested?
If you would like to be an affiliate hostel/campsite or agent, please send us an email and we will get back to you.
Do you have a suitable hut?
If yes, Kenya Youth Hostel Association would advice you on decoration and furnishing
Do you have a site but no Building?
We are still interested. Some of our members prefer to camp out, and we may be able to put up a building on site. Wayside shop can also help.
Affiliation Fee
Once your request has been considered having met the requirements for affiliation, you will sign an agreement with Kenya Youth Hostels Association, after which you will pay by either cheque/money order/cash or bank transfer, a sum of Kshs 10,000 yearly.
Note
Any one who has no farm but is willing to help in any other way is requested to send his/her suggestions, which shall be gratefully received and acknowledged. Donations in any kind and money – no matter how small are most welcome.
And why not take out a membership card to start with? see the online applicationhere.
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Promote travel in Kenya through KYHA network of hostels and campsites countrywide for members, travelers, students as well as independent backpackers of all age groups from all over the world.
Nairobi International Youth Hostel
Nairobi Youth Hostel
“Simply the best location for budget travelers in Nairobi’’Conveniently located in a safe and friendly neighbourhood, attractive prices and a pleasant atmosphere.
Situated 3km south-west of the city center, the hostel makes a good base for visiting Nairobi National Wildlife Park, the National and Railway museums and the open air Maasai Market. There is capacity for 96 guests and facilities include a sun roof, garden, patio, laundry and meals. Convenient for city whilst being located in a very secure residential area. Other facilities Parking, Catering Service, Travel and Tours services, Internet, Gift Shop, Salon’hairdressers, Grocery shop, Meeting facilities and Accommodation.
Facilities/Activities at Nairobi Hostel within hostel include a cyber cafe reasonably priced,a Gift shop,Grocery shop,Barber and Beauty Salon,Volunteers information office KVCDP, a Tours and Travel desk Run by the (African Home Adventure tours and Safaris) offering a wide range of Exciting Adventure Safaris in Kenya and Tanzania,All members of HI Hostels attract a 10% discount on tours booked.visit our website africahomeadventure.com or email us on info@africahomeadventure.com for more sustainable and affordable friendly safari advise.
We would like to warn all of our members that on arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport,try to avoid tour agents /Taxi drivers who mislead you that the hostel is fully booked and pretend that they are calling the Hostel to confirm that it is booked,insist to call the hostel phone no’s 254 20 2738046 / 254 20 2726011 or cell phones +254722655321 +254722656462. Ask to be taken to the Nairobi International Youth
Hostel its the only one in Nairobi.If you need a pick up from the airport please write an email to info@yhak.org. Our cost is Kshs 1800 per cab. 
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Kenya & Tanzania Safaris, The African Home Adventure Safaris are in partnership with Kenya Youth Hostel Association and offers a wide range of AdventureTours and Safaris which can be organised with the hostel travel desk. This Company has served hostellers for many years and has earned a great reputation in Kenya and Tanzania as travelers staying in other places have been regularly flowing in for tour packages within East Africa. Hostels in Kenya can as well be booked throughwww.africahomeadventure.com website hostelling international members attract 10% discount on any Safari Tours please contact us for proffesional advise on travel within East Africa.
Ralph Bunche Road,
PO BOX 48661-00100,
Nairobi, Kenya.
Website: http://www.yhak.org
Email: info@yhak.org
james@yhak.org
Tel 254 -20-2738046
Cell+254722655321
Tel/Fax 254 20 2738046
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Nairobi too metropolitan for you? Kenya Local Kshs 200 Our Rates are as follows: Rates for Nairobi International Youth Hostel per person per night. Non Residents. |
Traveling as a Group.
We have great Hostel accommodation packages available for school, cultural, sporting and social groups of 10 or more all around Kenya Hostels.
For group membership and booking enquiries, please fill in this form.
Ralph Bunche Road, Near Nairobi Hospital
P.O. Box 48661 -00100 Nairobi,Kenya.
Tel/Fax: 254 20 2738046
Email: info@yhak.org
Cell : +254 722 655321 + 254 722 656462
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History of Youth Hostels
Youth Hostelling in kenya and world.
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.
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.
What is the meaning of 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, opinion and nationality can meet and come to know each other.
Its function is educational in the widest sense of the world.Hostels provide friendly, inexpensive overnight accommodations for travellers. Hostelling International hostels assure travellers the utmost in quality standards including cleanliness, security ,comfort and service.
Hostels offer dormitory-style rooms with separate quarters for men and women. Some hostels also have private family and couples rooms. All hostels provide a blanket and pillow. Linens are often included in the price, or available for rental in some hostels .
Most hostels offer fully equipped self-service kitchens or cafeterias, dining areas, secure storage and common rooms for relaxing and socializing with other travellers. Some hostels have laundry facilities, travel libraries and concierge service. There are a few that even have swimming pools, 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 hostels offering a wide-range of 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.
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 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 & Hostels of Kenya” creates own youth hostels chain and cooperates with youth hostels in Kenya like tour operator, marketing adviser and activities coordinator. We offer to our clients Hostel Trips – tours which are based on accommodation in hostels.
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 CatchPool, $1500 was donated to KYHA ad-hoc committee in 1959-60 by the Dulverton Trust.
This donation assisted the committee in efforts to develop a good network in Kenya in those early days as it 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 KYHA 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, 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 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 hostelling international.
For more Information and Reservations please contact us
Kenya Youth Hostels Association
Nairobi International Youth Hostel
Ralph Bunche Road,
PO BOX 48661-00100,
Nairobi, Kenya.
Website: http://www.yhak.org
Email: info@yhak.org or
james@yhak.org
Tel 254 -20-2738046
Cell+254722655321/+254722656462
