🇰🇪 Kenya Rift Valley 1 tour

Kericho Tea Country

Rolling green tea fields of western Kenya — home to the world's finest black tea.

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Country

🇰🇪 Kenya

Region

Rift Valley

Best time

Year-round (dry July–March)

Coordinates

-0.367, 35.284

About Kericho Tea Country

Kericho sits at 2,100m on the western Rift escarpment. Its tea estates (some over a century old) produce the world's finest CTC black tea. Walk between emerald tea bushes, visit a tea factory, and learn the craft from pickers who harvest by hand.

Highlights

  • Tea-picking walks with staff
  • Tea factory tours
  • Colonial-era tea hotels
  • Kipchoge Keino stadium
Live forecast · Kericho Tea Country
19°C Heavy drizzle · 6 km/h wind
Updated 2026-05-18T16:00
  1. 🌦 22° 12° 💧 6.4mm
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  3. 🌧 22° 12° 💧 9.1mm
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  5. 🌦 22° 14° 💧 11.1mm
  6. 🌦 22° 12° 💧 3.0mm
  7. 🌦 22° 12° 💧 0.6mm
Weather data by Open-Meteo.com
Live wildlife observations
Recently spotted near Kericho Tea Country

Real observations published to GBIF by researchers, lodges, and citizen scientists — refreshed daily.

Trametes cubensis
2026-01-03 · Uganda
Podoscypha petalodes
2026-01-12 · Uganda
Desmodium uncinatum
2026-02-04 · Kenya
Desmodium uncinatum
2026-02-07 · Kenya
Desmodium intortum
2026-02-04 · Kenya
Desmodium intortum
2026-02-04 · Kenya
Source: GBIF.org — Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Best time to visit

Year-round (dry July–March)

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