About 23 kilometers from Nakuru town on the Nakuru-Nyahururu road is Nakuru’s cultural center - Bomas of Nakuru where residents, and visitors can easily gather all information about the county.
The center has 10 replicas of traditional tribal villages in Kenya among them six huts for Kalenjin, five for Kamba, six for Luo, four for Teso, five for Kikuyu and six for Maasai.
A walk in the center gets you in touch with how life was in the past.
Besides promoting African heritage, the center is also a habitat for wild animals and birds.
Ostriches, tortoises and crocodiles are some of the wild animals kept at the Bomas of Nakuru.
Although the place is a perfect recreational facility that is worthy visiting for those looking to have the best of their leisure time, it also enables visitors to learn.
“Bomas of Nakuru serves as an information center to locals and tourists to enable them easily navigate and familiarize themselves with business opportunities available locally,” says Stephen Waweru who together with his children established the center.
The former administration officer is confident that preservation of African heritage would help end tribal animosity in the country.
“We need to protect our African identity by preserving our positive cultural practices. African had their way of living. Well, we should embrace modernization but without throwing away our good practices,” he says.
Bomas of Nakuru, Waweru says, is a center that aims to safe guard and promote African heritage and culture as way of enhancing peace in the society.