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What is a Youth Hostel ?
What is a Youth Hostel ?

A Youth Hostel is a building which offers inexpensive travel and budget accommodation to young people exploring their country or the world, it also provides a meeting place in which young people of different social back ground, opinion and nationality can meet and come to know each other.

Its function is educational in the widest sense of the world. Youth Hostels provide friendly, inexpensive overnight budget accommodations to budget travellers. Hostelling International the parent body of all National Youth Hostels Associations assure travellers the utmost in quality standards including cleanliness, security, comfort and service.

Youth Hostels and Camping sites offer dormitory-style rooms with separate quarters for men and women. Some youth hostels & Camping sites also have private family and couples rooms. All youth hostels provide a blanket and pillow. Linens are often included in the price, or available for rental in some youth hostels & safari camps .

Most hostels & camp sites offer fully equipped self- catering kitchens or cafeterias, dining areas, secure storage and common rooms for relaxing and socializing with other travellers. Some youth hostels & safari camps have laundry facilities, travel libraries and concierge service. There are a few that even have swimming pools, Youth Hostels Our mission is "to help all, especially the young, gain a greater understanding of the world and its people through hostelling." The mission is accomplished through our extensive network of youth hostels, Camps, Safari tented camps offering budget accommodations and a wide-range of cheap travel adventure tour programs and activities.

A founder of the Youth Hostels Network Richard Shirmann said: "Every forest, every valley, every flower, every mountain, every village and every city are separate pages of your Motherland. You should read these pages in your own experience and not in books.

The Earth is huge. When you travel, you see the details, and this is the biggest joy on the planet. For this purpose we are now opening Youth Hostels and Safari Camping sites to cater for the demand for cheap accommodations and adventure travel.

However, you also need to travel outside your country, to meet your neighbours, to know them better and to appreciate those who speak other language and have different history. To do this, I am now calling upon you, our friends and neighbours, to open Youth Hostels & Camping sites and to do it for all young people on the Earth. They must become places of peace and comfort for the good of all humanity.

Trade mark "Youth Tourism & Youth Hostels in Kenya" create own youth hostels or a camp sites to connect with the chain of hostels and in-cooperate them with youth hostels in Kenya like tour operator, marketing adviser and activities coordinator. We offer to our hostel clients with Adventure activities and safari tours , volunteer travel programs which are based on budget accommodation in youth hostels or safari tented camping sites in Kenya.

Whatever your travel interests are, you will find plenty of adventure activities to do in Kenya. click on this link www.africahomeadventure.com or send an email to: info@africahomeadventure.com This link will show you some of the many adventure travel suggestions with a wide choice of Things to see and do in Kenya.This information will also help you plan a fantastic holiday in Kenya Karibu --- Welcome. Since 1909, when hostelling was born out of the excursions of German School teacher the late Richard Shirrmann and his pupils, it has become one of the world's biggest international membership organizations for youth, with over 3 million members and a mission that has never been more relevant.

How to contact us

Kenya Youth Hostels Association

Nairobi International Youth Hostel

Ralph Bunche Road,

PO BOX 48661-00100,

Nairobi, Kenya.

Tel: Cell + 254722655321

Office: 254 -20-2738046

Travel: 254 -20- 2726011

Website: http://www.yhak.org

for information, bookings and reservations

Emails: info@yhak.org or james@yhak.org

Volunteering in Kenya: volunteers@yhak.org

Travel & Tours Services: travel@yhak.org

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