Notice the monkeys clambering on rope ladders over the road? The ladders are the work of the Colobus Conservation Centre, which aims to protect the Angolan black-and-white colobus monkey, a once-common species now restricted to a few isolated pockets of forest south of Mombasa. It runs excellent tours of its headquarters, where you’ll likely get to see a few orphaned or injured colobus and other monkeys undergoing the process of rehabilitation to the wild.
With advance notice it can organise forest walks (per person KSh1000) in search of wilder primates and other creatures. There's also a wildly popular volunteer programme, costing from €750 for three weeks.
