3 Days 2 Nights Kenya Coffee Farm Tea Plantation Tour

This 3-day/2-night Kenya coffee and tea tour from Nairobi offers an agricultural experience, featuring visits to coffee farms in Nyeri. Itinerary highlights include guided, hands-on picking, factory tours and processing, and tastings, usually with scenic countryside drives.

Highlights

✓ Direct Sourcing: Opportunity to buy fresh coffee and tea directly from the source
✓ Professional Guidance: Expert-led tours discussing agriculture, local culture, and history
✓ Tea Tasting & Lunch: Participate in a tea tasting session and enjoy meals made with farm-fresh ingredients
✓ Tea Plantation Experience): Walk through lush tea bushes and engage in hands-on tea picking with local farmers
✓ Coffee Tasting: Enjoy fresh Kenyan Arabica coffee while learning unique brewing techniques to highlight flavor
✓ Coffee Farm Tour (Nyeri): Explore a working coffee farm, learning the entire process from planting seedlings to harvesting
✓ Scenic Views: Tour the picturesque Highlands, with opportunities to see indigenous forests and wildlife such as Colobus monkeys
✓ Production Insight: Visit local processing mills to see how coffee cherries are turned into premium beans and witness coffee roasting

3-Days/ 2-Nights Kenya coffee and tea tour from Nairobi Itinerary

3 Days 2 Nights Kenya coffee farm tea plantation tour is a 3-day agro-tourism trip to coffee and tea growing farms in Nyeri, Central Province, of Kenya.

Become a local farmer for 3 days and wear local gear of gumboots and overcoats to enable you to enter the farms.

Experience tea picking and coffee berry picking. Learn about the origin, growth and production of coffee and tea and the industrial process of converting the raw fruit of the coffee plant and tea leaves into the finished product.

Engage with the local farmers and see how labour-intensive it is so that Kenyan coffee or tea can be enjoyed in other continents. The main coffee grown in Kenya is Arabica which is rich in acidity and full-bodied, however, taste varies per region where it is grown.

The regions are from Nairobi right to the foothills of Mount Kenya. The coffee is grown in high altitudes (1,400-2,100 meters above sea level) in the central highlands with sloping sides from rich deep volcanic soils.

Day 1: Nairobi – Drive to Nyeri County (3 Hours Drive)
Day 2: Spend a Full Day in Nyeri (Central Highlands)
Day 3: Nyeri (Central Highlands) – Drive to Nairobi

Day 1: Nairobi – Drive to Nyeri County (3 Hours Drive)

0800 Hours:  Depart Nairobi city heading north to the Central highlands into Nyeri County.

1200 Hours: Arrive for lunch and check in at the hotel.

1400 Hours: Depart to the higher altitude to visit farmers in their fields of coffee and if time allows you may visit one major coffee producer.

1800 Hours: Then return later to your hotel for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation Options
Luxury Accommodation: The White Rhino Hotel, Nyeri Westwood Hotel or the Batian Grand Hotel
Mid-Range Accommodation: Green Hills Hotel, Outspan hotel, Sangare Farm House
Budget Accommodation: Maya’s Guest House, Kahiga Homestay, Banana Leaf Hotel

Day 2: Spend a Full Day in Nyeri (Central Highlands)

0730 Hours: Enjoy breakfast at the hotel then depart to the coffee factory to see the pulping and value chain. Later on, move to tea plantations to visit the farmers and experience tea picking.

1230 Hours: Enjoy your picnic lunch at one of the farms

1400 Hours: In the afternoon see part of the value chain in tea processing.

1700 Hours: Return to the hotel for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation Options
Luxury Accommodation: The White Rhino Hotel, Nyeri Westwood Hotel or the Batian Grand Hotel
Mid-Range Accommodation: Green Hills Hotel, Outspan hotel, Sangare Farm House
Budget Accommodation: Maya’s Guest House, Kahiga Homestay, Banana Leaf Hotel

Day 3: Nyeri (Central Highlands) – Drive to Nairobi

0730: Enjoy breakfast at the hotel.

0800: Depart for Othaya Tea Factory to see the pulping, milling and grading of tea.

1230 Hours: Lunch will be served en route back to Nairobi.

1800 Hours: Arrive back in Nairobi.

3 Days 2 Nights Kenya Coffee Farm Tea Plantation Tour Rates Includes

✓ Guides: Professional, English-speaking local guides/agricultural officers
✓ Transportation: Pick up from your hotel in Nairobi and drop-off to your hotel
✓Accommodation: 2 nights accommodation on a full board basis in Nyeri County
✓ Tasting Experiences: Coffee tasting at venues like Fairview Coffee Estate and tea tasting in Kericho or Kiambethu
✓ Farm Tours: Guided walking tours of tea and coffee plantations, witnessing the cultivation, harvesting, and processing (factory visits)

Notes

* This tour departs on request
* Wear comfortable walking shoes, carry snacks, and drink water

Kenya Coffee Farm Tea Plantation Tour Does Not Include

✘ Travelers Insurance
✘  Communication charges
✘ Minimum of one person required
✘ Alcoholic beverages (unless specified)
✘ Gratuities/Tips for guides, drivers, and farm staff
✘ Visas, international airfares, and airport taxes; meals
✘ Personal expenses (laundry, telephone calls, souvenirs)
✘ Sightseeing is not included in the package; optional activities
✘Personal expenses such as transfers to/ from the airport (supplement airport transfer cost applies for tours starting from the airport)