Kitui to Mwingi: How to Travel from Kitui to Mwingi

If you wish to travel from Kitui to Mwingi, all you need to do is take the B7 road from Kitui town, cross the Kalundu river at ‘Riverside’ and move straight all the way to the Kitui Road-Garissa Road Junction. At the junction, turn right, and drive all the way to Mwingi town. So at the Syongila Junction, you don’t turn, but drive straight on, past Kabati, past Katutu and past Kathiiani all the way to the junction. At the Garrisa road junction, you turn right. Then you move past towns like Kithyoko, Kwa Muthusi and Nguutani all the way to Mbondoni. At Mbondoni, you should be able to see Mwingi town from afar and from there, it should take you just a few minutes to Mwingi town.

The distance from Kitui to Mwingi is around 95 kilometers. If you are traveling by Matatu or bus, it should take you between one and a half hours and two hours. If you are driving, it should take you a maximum of one and half hours to move from Kitui to Mwingi. There is another shorter route between Kitui and Mwingi, via Miambani (less than 60 kilometers) but unfortunately, as of March 2020, that road is untarmacked meaning that the best way to travel from Kitui to Mwingi is still via B7 up to junction, and then taking garrissa road up to Mwingi.

Some of the Matatu saccos operating on the Kitui to Mwingi route include Kinatwa Sacco, Mbikisa Sacco and Mwingi travellers. There are also buses like Mombasa Fresh, Chania Genesis and Simba with operations on the Kitui Mwingi route.

If you are in Kitui town and wish to travel to Mwingi by matatu or bus, all you need to do is get to the main Kitui bus station in Mjini and board a matatu or bus there. You are likely to find two Mwingi matatu routes there – the first being the main Kitui to Mwingi town matatu route and the other one being the Kitui to Migwani route. So if you are going to Mwingi town you take the former: the Kitui to Mwingi town direct route. In normal days, the Kitui to Mwingi matatus take about 30 to 40 minutes to fill up, and as of March 2020, the fare from Kitui to Mwingi was in the 300 kenya shillings range.