Kericho sits at the heart of Kenya's tea-growing region, one of the largest tea-producing areas in the world, where rolling hills are blanketed almost entirely in neatly manicured tea bushes stretching to the horizon in every direction — a genuinely striking agricultural landscape that looks more like a painted backdrop than working farmland.
The region's cool, high-altitude climate and consistent rainfall create ideal growing conditions, and Kenya's tea industry, built substantially around Kericho, remains one of the country's most significant agricultural exports. The town itself retains a distinctly colonial-era layout and architecture, a legacy of the British tea estates established here in the early 20th century.
Experiencing Kericho
- Estate tours typically combine a walk through the plantations with a factory visit showing the full tea production process.
- Freshly brewed tea, tasted at source, is noticeably different from what most visitors are used to.
- The cool, misty climate makes for a refreshing change from Kenya's hotter lowland regions.
- Kericho is a natural stop on a route between Nairobi/Nakuru and western Kenya destinations like Kisumu.
For a genuinely different Kenyan landscape built around agriculture rather than wildlife, Kericho's tea country is one of the country's most photogenic and least-touristed regions.
