Nairobi Mosques

... and Africans into a beautiful Swahili culture with wooden sailing dhows crossing the ocean, coconut plantations and fishing villages with mosques on the beaches. We explored the world heritage site of Stonetown where you see the old slave chambers and ...

This blogs being written in Jomo Kenyatta airport in Nairobi where I've quite happily jumped back 8 years into 2010, though I'm not so happily settling into another night sleeping at an airport. I have three crazy crazy weeks to fill you all in on from ...

... the people. They were very friendly. They were always willing to help you and never asked for anything in return. Unlike those in Nairobi. We took a took-took (an auto rickshaw) to Fort Jesus and to Old Town. Fort Jesus is situated in Old Town and was ...

... that they turn stupid??!! Tiwi Beach We arrived at Twiga lodge on a Wednesday morning, after a 9 hr night bus from Nairobi to Mombassa, a chuck chuck (a 3 wheeler, motor bike style contraption) to Likoni, the Likoni Ferry across the bay, a ...

... still as stunning as ever.  After we plateaued, i.e. reached saturation point, we set off to the Citadel surrounded by lots of mosques, dominated by Mosque of Mohammed Ali.   We drove out to the pyramids, the oldest and largest is Cheops at 6 ...

... the Church are materialism and Islam (we noticed and it was pointed out as well that the Muslim community has often built Mosques and Muslim Academies right next to the churches – as for example in the property just adjacent to the PCEA ...

... giraffe in the middle of the road… and another waiting in the bush: a nice welcome to Kenya. Less of a disaster area indeed, but as we approached Nairobi things started to get a bit bleak… a succession of cement factories and other industrial ...