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Shimoni Slave Caves

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Open Opens at 7:30-20:00
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Shimoni, KenyaMap
Phone: +254 791 743363
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  • 859jeremiahs
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    Average place

    Improve on lighting, publishing written history, good tour guide welcoming receptionist who issues receipt after payment

    Reviewed on Nov 24, 2020
  • Alex M
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    Slave Trade History in East Africa

    Place worthy the visit when in Shimoni. Tour takes about 30 minutes. Historical information about Slave Trade in East Africa. How natives were captured and kept in the caves before boarding ships to ...

    Reviewed on Feb 6, 2020
  • pinneydavid
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    Well worth a visit but it's a harrowing piece of history

    Our guide was excellent. There are steps to go down but after that the caves have flat floors and are fairly large. It's not expensive. Each month, it is likely that a thousand slaves were collected h...

    Reviewed on Jan 27, 2020
  • Bogsie44
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    Good to see, guide is well informed

    It was very interesting to hear about the history of the caves. What horrendous conditions the slaves were kept in though! Worth a visit on the way back from snorkelling, it's a short tour so I would ...

    Reviewed on Sep 20, 2019
  • Givemeaholiday
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    Inexpensive and worth a visit.

    This is literally a 15 minutes visit, but it is well worth a visit to put in perspective how badly treated the natives were in this country and how people were badly abused and upon which a visit to t...

    Reviewed on Sep 10, 2019
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