How do I travel from Mombasa to Taveta?

If you want to travel from Mombasa to Taveta, you first need to take the Mombasa to Nairobi highway, up to Voi. At Voi Caltex junction, you need to turn left, and drive on for about 2.5 to 3.5 hours to arrive at Taveta, which sits on the Kenya-Tanzania border. The actual Kenya-Tanzania border post is at Holili town, some distance from Taveta town itself, but Taveta is the main town around there.

If you are using public means, you need to first need to go to Mwembe Tayari and board a Voi-bound Matatu or Bus there. There are numerous matatus that ply the Mombasa –Voi route, though they tend to take as much as 40 minutes to 1 hour to get filled up fully. The various low-cost Nairobi bound buses (like those that carry from the Kobil petrol station in Mwembe), including Chania Cool, Chania Executive, Kathi Executive, Renee and others usually accept Voi-bound passengers. You can also take the Zighe Sacco matatus, the Wumeri Sacco matatus and the 2TS matatus (depending on the one that you find carrying at the stage) and pay the fare to Voi. Once you get to Voi, you will find matatus plying the Voi-Taveta route, and yours is to get into one of them and bid your time as it fills up. The Voi – Taveta matatus take a lot of time to fill up, and you should be ready to wait for as much as an hour or two, unless you are traveling during the ‘rush’ time or unless you are lucky to find a matatu that was almost getting filled up. 

The journey from Voi to Taveta is an interesting one, with beautiful scenery all along the way, and with a high probability of you seeing at least one or another type of wildlife along the way.