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Sunrise over the Indian Ocean at Diani Beach on Kenya’s south coast

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Days on this coast worth planning a trip around

Four of the trips our guests come back for, each run by people who live here.
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Why Placid Tours

Coastal expertise, and nothing oversold

We would rather tell you the truth about a day on the water than sell you a version of it that does not exist.
About us
  1. 01

    Local knowledge

    Our guides, skippers and drivers are from this coast. They know which channel the dolphins are working this week and which day is not worth going out on.

  2. 02

    Built around the sea

    Tides and sea state set the timing here, not a printed timetable. We plan each day around what the water is actually doing on your date.

  3. 03

    Straight answers

    No guaranteed sightings, no invented departure times, no fees hidden until the morning. If something will not work for you, we say so before you pay.

  4. 04

    Responsible by default

    Marine parks, reefs and wildlife are approached the way they should be. A reef that survives is the reason there is anything to show the next visitor.

A fisherman on his small sailing boat on the water in Mombasa

The coast, properly

The best days here are the ones nobody scheduled

A sandbank that only exists for three hours. Dolphins in the channel because the water was flat that morning. The walk down to a waterfall in forest an hour from the beach you have been lying on all week.

This coast does not run to a timetable, and the operators who pretend it does are the ones who disappoint people. We plan around the tide, the season and the sea — and we tell you what we are planning around, so you know why your day looks the way it does.

Islands
Wasini & Funzi
Safari
Shimba & Tsavo
By sea
Zanzibar & Pemba
Speedboat transfers

Explore. Discover. Belong.

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Tell us your dates and what you would like to see. We will come back with a plan, a price and honest advice about what works for the time you have.

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