Kipepeo Butterfly House

The Kipepeo is Swahili for Butterfly; the Kipepeo project is a community-based project that was established in 1993. Its headquarters is situated at the Gede Ruins National Monument and Museum Site. Kipepeo intends to improve the livelihoods of local communities living adjacent to Arabuko Sokoke Forest by generating alternative income possibilities. The butterfly farmers raise butterflies until the insects pupate and then bring the pupae to the project centre where Kipepeo staff packs and exports them to butterfly houses in Europe, Japan, and the USA. The project runs an attractive butterfly house in which a variety of beautiful butterflies found at Arabuko Sokoke Forest are on display. They also have a honey processing room where guests can learn how honey and candles from beeswax are produced.