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UNESCO World Heritage for Kenya |
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites represent some of the best natural, cultural and historic attractions in world travel. Below are details of the 6 cultural, natural and mixed sites inscribed for Kenya to date (a red World Heritage symbol denotes a site currently regarded as endangered). For more details of these properties, click on the links to the UNESCO website and the photographic galleries of these sites from OurPlace (where available) or see our highlights of Kenya for descriptions. Also, check out UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage for Kenya below.
 | 1997 - Mount Kenya National Park/Natural Forest | Natural site |
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| 1997 - Lake Turkana National Parks | Natural site | |
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| 2001 - Lamu Old Town | Cultural site | |
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| 2008 - Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests | Cultural site | |
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| 2011 - Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley | Natural site | |
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| 2011 - Fort Jesus, Mombasa | Cultural site |
Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley
Intangible Cultural Heritage
Recently UNESCO has begun to document the world's Intangible Cultural Heritage which includes "traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our descendants, such as oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts". The current listings for Kenya are shown below - click on the links for more details.
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
 | 2009 - Traditions and practices associated with the Kayas in the sacred forests of the Mijikenda |
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