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Africa » Kenya » Coast Province » Mombasa November 22nd 2006

ok so the ENTIRE blog i just wrote just got comploetely wiped thanks to miss verity over there who told me to close the illegal operations msg thing..cheers for that vez... so i cant really be bothered/cant actaulyy AFFORD to rite the whole thing again - suffice to say sdince last week we went to mombasa for the day on thurs, went to the new camp kenya school on fri and the orphanage, went drinking all saturday and me, nathan, vez and becca watched the stars all night and a meteor shower, then left for safari at 6.30 on sun morn. safari was wicked cos of the accomodation and the food, but we only saw animals at tsavo east - elephants and giraffes crossing in front of the truck - and then at satao rock we ... read more
typical mombasa
look, wait, look and cross..
sunbaking on safari

Africa » Kenya » Coast Province » Mombasa November 17th 2006

This is the salary of a nursery school teacher in Mombasa - assuming that the community can afford to pay the $16 that month. In Kenya, primary school (level 1 to level 8 -- British system) is free. But nursery school is not. Neither is secondary school. And by free I just mean school fees -- not the fees for books or uniforms or feeding programs. So sending your children to school is both a sacrifice when living in extreme poverty -- 80% of Kenyan families. But sending your kids to school is also hope for a higher standard of living -- so famililies are sacrificing and the primary schools are bursting at the seams. Free primary education was introduced in Kenya 4 years ago. The system is still trying to adjust because it was a ... read more
The Playground
Children Drawing
Jan and Children

Africa » Kenya » Coast Province » Mombasa November 15th 2006

welll im at the beach again... slightly too hot cos of being so near to the equator and all.. we were just sitting in the water looking around at the palm trees and the white sand and the turquoise water with little waves lapping, and just couldn;t really believe it.. in the last couple of days i;ve had quite an eventful time - went to a random village and watched a witch doctor doing her thing - they gave us coconuts and these things called chappatis which are like big fat pancake things, v tasty. i just realised i havent really said much about camp life here so i will in a min., but yeh the witch doctor "cured' a "mad" woman.. it was so so fake but still really cool, she was jyumping around this ... read more
devil transferrance
masaii jumpers
man makes fire

Africa » Kenya » Coast Province » Mombasa November 11th 2006

WELL sorrrrrry its taken so long for me to get onto this site!!ok i hardly know where to start... so i'm in diani beach at the moment, in a little internet cafe near where i bought my second pair of flipflops..god this feels so weird i havent had internet for over a week! i was saying to georgie just now that it feels like so so much longer.. ok so name dropping there - if i told ppl about the whole 'yeh theres gonna be 16 ppl when we arrive, 6 two monthers and 10 three monthers'....that was SO wrong. when we arrived on thursday morning into camp, we were greeted with a garland of flowers round our tent, fresh coconuts, and a table full of FIFTY other campers. both ozzies and brits. so basically the ... read more
makongeni 'high street'
the village boys
our lovely toilet+shower complex

Africa » Kenya » Coast Province » Mombasa October 23rd 2006

So I have a few minutes before bed and since I am at a fancy hotel I have decided to make use of this "cyber cafe". I just had a wonderful curry for dinner and then a night stroll down the beach. I am in Mombasa. I arrived with two friends last night. The journey took 8 hours by bus (a real bus not a matatu) we got stuck once and the whole bus gets off and we all just look at the bus....like looking at it long enough and hard enough may do something. The men gather and start directing the bus driver and finally he tries to move again. It is hot and the sun is blazing over us. I am so thirsty but fear to drink any water because there is no where ... read more

Africa » Kenya » Coast Province » Mombasa October 10th 2006

Aaaaah! Mombasa! Elegant resort! What a way to end 3 months of work at the orphanage in Vihiga. I've been resting, reading, swimming and even getting a massage. I've signed up for a snorkeling adventure at a coral reef, transported there by dhow. Here are my last thoughts about the experience at Vihiga. I think the sponsors from TJ will find this most interesting. Sponsors: how often do you write your child? The children know the name of their sponsor and are eager to receive letters. Sponsors who seldom write don't understand how this is received by the child. Some of the children think of sponsors as their new parents...they daydream about meeting you. They recall details of your letters and pictures. You should see the look on their faces when they get a letter - ... read more

Africa » Kenya » Coast Province » Mombasa September 4th 2006

Buying a ticket on the Nairobi to Mombasa overnight train proved to be an exercise in inefficient African bureaucracy at its best. There were six people mulling about and only one had access to a computer so the rest stood idly watching. It really seemed like no one cared if they sold you a ticket or not. Normally, it would have been a comical observation but our driver was to pick up her boss and we were running late. Finally it all worked out and I purchased a first class ticket because there would only be two in the cabin. They assured me I would share it only with a woman. The safari company agreed to store some of my stuff so I lightened my pack considerably and left the cart behind. They a... read more

Africa » Kenya » Coast Province » Mombasa September 3rd 2006

Lake Nakura These photos are of Amboseli National Park just north of Mt. Kilimanjaro and of the Maasai who live in the region. img=http://static.flickr.com/88/23761553... read more

Africa » Kenya » Coast Province » Mombasa June 19th 2006

Kenya's coastline stretches from no-go Somalia in the north, past luxury beach resorts, to Tanzania's Zanzibar archipelago in the south. It is a relatively short coast at only 500km, but nearly every traveller to Kenya makes it here at some point, and who am I to break from the norm? Well, I usually am the first to do just that actually, but for once, I'll have a traditional 'normal' week. There's still lots to experience and one can find rich Swahili culture, scary young prostitutes, and, of course, beautiful equatorial beaches. This past week, I stumbled upon all three, or rather, at least one of them stumbled upon me. It's not that riveting a story, but it allows me the opportunity to use the word 'sex' in the title, something I ashamedly have wanted to do ... read more
Malindi coast near the expensive pillar
Gede Ruins and a tree...
Stripey Watamu Beach

Africa » Kenya » Coast Province » Mombasa June 15th 2006

I know I did. I even put it in the last blog myself. But then... I heard that the expedition I had left at 5 weeks was having a final party in Dyani to mark the end of their 10 weeks. I was in Nairobi any way and a one day trip each way isn't actualy that far away in the grand scheme of African travel so I decided to pay a little suprise visit. It was fun. I got to meet every one again and chill for a little while and not have to cope with jokes about becoming a permanent resident at Nairobi Backpackers. But turning up was only part of the story... I had left Nairobi with 3 other backpackers who were heading for Lamu. One of them had orders to try and ... read more




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