All Aboard Train

Not quite Hogwarts Express - but close

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May 3rd 2009
(Vidas writing) We traveled by train from Nairobi capital to the coastal town of Mombasa then to Lamu where we stayed for three days. We first bought our tickets at Nairobi at a very old fashioned train station that was built in the early 1800’s British Colonial days. We thought it was interesting that there were only two trains possible - one line going east (to Mombasa) and one going west. We ... read more

Africa » Kenya » Coast Province » Mombasa

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Founding president and liberation struggle icon Jomo KENYATTA led Kenya from independence until his death in 1978, when President Daniel Toroitich arap MOI took power in a constitutional succession. The country was a de facto one-party state from 196... ... read more