{"id":208528,"date":"2025-09-29T19:29:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-park-fees-to-rise-after-parliament-approval\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:29:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:29:51","slug":"kenya-park-fees-to-rise-after-parliament-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-park-fees-to-rise-after-parliament-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Park Fees to Rise After Parliament Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Entry fees to Kenya&#8217;s national parks, reserves, and sanctuaries will increase from October 1, 2025, following parliamentary approval of new regulations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said Nairobi National Park charges for residents will rise from Sh430 to Sh1,000, while foreigners will pay $80 (Sh10,360), up from $43 (Sh5,570).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Premium parks such as Amboseli and Lake Nakuru will charge Sh1,500 for locals and Sh11,660 for international tourists. Mid-tier parks like Meru and Aberdare will&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509290480.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Entry fees to Kenya&#8217;s national parks, reserves, and sanctuaries will increase from October 1, 2025, following parliamentary approval of new regulations. Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said Nairobi National Park charges for residents will rise from Sh430 to Sh1,000, while foreigners will pay $80 (Sh10,360), up from $43 (Sh5,570). Premium parks such as Amboseli [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":208529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,8113,11432,4688,430,257,7191,2412,10256,254],"class_list":["post-208528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approval","tag-fees","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-park","tag-parliament","tag-rise","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}