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I am a Humphrey tourist guide based in Mombasa, I do walking tours, Fortjesus, Oldtown town and spice market, Elephant tusk's Hindu temple, Mombasa walking tour, History about Fort Jesus was built by Portuguese 1593 and take it over by Oman Arab 1698 and then British take over 1898. Oldtown town Mombasa is mixed culture when walking you will see the old wooden balcony and narrow streets in the Oldtown also you will enjoy seeing Oman carving doors and making your tour comfortable.
We are thankful for having Humphrey guiding us in Mombasa. Very friendly and professional person.
So please note my review was based on my interaction with Humphrey. But I did not take his tour. Let me explain. I have participated in guru walks in multiple countries and what I love is the guides are local people, not some big foreign company. I choose to support local people. But I am respectful to remember that these guides are individuals who are doing this to make a living. So when I messed up and overslept, I felt the right thing to do was to: 1. Contact the guide and apologize for the inconvenience 2. Provide small compensation for their wasted time (especially if I happened to be the only tourist signed up. 3. Try to reschedule for another day if possible It costs nothing to be considerate!
I only joined for 2h and 15min, so can only rate that. The guide was really knowledgeable and could tell you a lot, cared about the customer. However, I feel we spent a bit too much time at the Fort (more then 1h) and only little time in the old town. We took then a TukTuk to the market, where I needed to leave. We spend quite some time in shops, surely also driven by other tourists but I guess in this 3h we would have not covered at all what is on the itinerary plus way to little time in the old town. For me this was the main aim of taking this tour, as everyone tells you to not go alone. So maybe the Tour should state 4h maybe in this time is possible to cover. Please mind the Fort Entrance needs to be paid still, so bring enough money.
Solide und gute Tour. Da wir etwas zu spät kamen (dies konnten wir unserem guide vorher mitteilen), kann ich nicht sagen ob das Fort Jesus und die Besichtigung Teil der Tour waren. Wir wollten das Fort nicht von innen besichtigen und hatten somit 45 Minuten Wartezeit. Die Tour selbst und die Spots sind gut zu laufen und man bekommt einen guten Überblick
