Kilifi Caves (Panga Ya Saidi, Mawe Meru and Chasimba Caves). Ex Mombasa

Kilifi caves A UNESCO world heritage site.

This is a serial site comprising of Panga ya Saidi, Meru and Chasimba Caves which are in close proximity, related and similar based on their archaeology.

Panga ya Saidi

Panga ya Saidi is an archaeological cave site located in Kilifi County, southeastern Kenya, about 15 km from the Indian Ocean in the Dzitsoni limestone hills. The cave site has rich archaeological deposits dating to the Middle Stone Age, Later Stone Age, and Iron Age. Excavated deposits preserve an unusually long record of human activities, from around 78,000 years ago until around 400 years ago, a chronology supported by radiocarbon dating and optically stimulated luminescence dating.

Mawe Meru

This outcrop within the mining area is both of cultural significance to the local communities living around it, and has unique biodiversity that is endemic and thus found only on this outcrop in the whole world.

Mawe Meru is a cultural identity site used as a source of edifying spiritual and social fulfillment for the communities and individuals living around it

Mawe Meru houses endemic animal and plant communities, some of which have been mapped out by scientists, revealing the presence of unique types of plants, which are only found in this rock outcrop the world over. Some of the animals such as bats and hyraxes, both tree and rock hyraxes, are bound to be lost through loss of their habitats and pollution.

Chasimba Cave

The Chasimba habitat is unique in that it harbours unique geological features found nowhere else, and with cultural identity and spiritual significance.

Rates: From 2500/$50

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Round transport from Mombasa

Entrance fee

Guide charges

Unlimited water supply

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