Mombasa, Kenya Travel Blogs

I felt the rains down in Africa...
Sep 29, 2006 (1 photos)

... trepidation? We are happy to report that so far, it is nothing like we expected. Keeping in mind that Kenya is a developing nation; the town of Mombasa is pretty clean, orderly, and safe. The Kenyans we have encountered so far have been genteel, polite ...

Old Mombasa
Apr 9, 2006

... olive, but fruity and sweet. I'm finding cassava chips as well. They're delicious and 10 cents per bag. Mombasa is busy. This is the second largest city in Kenya and the major port. I got off the bus and wasn't able to contact my people in Kilifi, the ...

Mombasa
May 27, 2003

Hi Guys, You can read our update from Mombasa in our entry from Eldoret, Kenya entitled 'Nairobi to Eldoret'. Cheers, K & S

First week in Mombasa
Feb 18, 2007

... I got my flip flops stolen =( don't know where to find Animal or Billabong flip flops in East Africa... I've met all the Kenya Red Cross co-ordinators aswell they're really nice! I've already been to a few schools. On Thursday I visited the prison. ...

Welcome to Hell
Jul 18, 2005 (1 photos)

... are all china, and the glasses are glass - no plastic airline stuff here thankyou very much. We arrived in Mombasa on time and a friend of Rob's who lives in Kenya met us at the station and took us to the bus office, where we discovered that the bus to ...

Am Tor zur Hoelle
Jan 31, 2009

... den naechsten drei Monaten mit seinem Radel in Angriff. Und der sah ganz bestimmt nicht wie 72 aus!! Jetzt bin ich in Mombasa, dieser lebhaften Mischung aus Afrika, Indien und Nahost. Viel Zeit habe ich nicht, weil morgen meine Eltern hier landen und ...

Mombasa
Jul 31, 2006 (69 photos)

... que le camping me manque ! J'ai de suite préfère l'atmosphère ici en comparaison avec Dar Es Sallam. Mombasa et la deuxième plus grande ville du Kenya et le port le pus important de l'Afrique de l'Est. La population y est majoritairement Musulman. Notre ...

a quasi trip to the coast
Dec 3, 2006 (10 photos)

... mothers. she had been invited to accompany the orphanage's 20 children and 5 adult employees and administrators on a trip to mombasa, kenya's second-largest city, lolling on the coast of the indian ocean, famous for its beaches and arab-african cultural ...

Langsames Abschiednehmen
Feb 20, 2009 (4 photos)

... und Internettag, weil zum einen die Fahrt mit der Faehre von Lamu aufs Festland zusammen mit der eigentlich Busfahrt nach Mombasa insgesamt sieben Stunden dauerten , und zum anderen weil ich noch einige Sachen fuer Suedafrika zu regeln und den Kenia- ...

Kenya: The Girl May Leave Africa but Africa will
Mar 16, 2005

... to get there we had to take Matatus, independent vans that serve as the cheapest public transportation system in Mombasa. They ended up being my favorite part of Kenya. Imagine a full-passenger van packed with people. All the seats are full and I find ...

Nairobi, Rift Valley, Lake Nakuru, Masai Mara.
Nov 11, 2005 (16 photos)

... a good shower though! After a wild four days here - & REALLY well Sun burned - we headed off via train, from Nairobi, to Mombasa... Obviously, for a bit of a well deserved rest on the beach. The Train ride - was a mare in truth, the beach AWESOME!!! Tiwi ...

Weekend Break in Mombasa and Diani Beach
Sep 9, 2007 (4 photos)

The weekends certainly are on the other end of the spectrum to everyday life in the week! Travelled to Mombasa on Friday night to stay at a volunteer house in Mombasa and gatecrash two of the other volunteer's leaving parties!! We ventured out for an ...

Arrived in Mombasa
Aug 19, 2007 (1 photos)

... , which is quite basic but serves its purpose, of having a bed and a roof over your head!! Had a good look around Mombasa yesterday, everyone was very friendly and it was perfectly safe walking around. Food was v cheap. Made our way to the Nyali ...

Exploring Mombasa with Soraya.
Aug 5, 2009

Soraya flew out to join me in Mombasa on Saturday to spend ten days with me on the coast of Kenya. She was born in Mombasa and hasn't been back since she was five so it has been a great experience exploring the town with her hunting out places from her ...

Relax!
Aug 7, 2009

... I wouldn’t have had it any other way. Alnoor and Nafisa took us for dinner at a small street-side café in Mombasa that is famous for its grilled meat, particularly the mishkaki (a type of marinated beef kebabs). The cafe had a wonderful atmosphere set ...

A world apart
Sep 19, 2009 (9 photos)

... ; After that acclimatisation stroll we felt ready to hit the hustle and bustle of the main town.  At the time of visiting Mombasa it was the penultimate day of Ramadan and it seemed as though every Muslim had come to the same street where Sarah was ...

Woo Hoo, Libo!
Jun 16, 1994 (2 photos)

After leaving Somalia we stopped in Kenya for a little R&R. The ship broke down just before pulling into port so I missed my safari but I did get to do some diving. Jambo Mombasa!

Can we please move in?
Aug 27, 2009 (9 photos)

... (4 hours) and pocket the Sudan visa (27 hours). The next leg of the trip is going to take us through the northern part of Kenya. The stretch up to the border has been said to be tough and rough. The road is bad and often the trip is interrupted by bandits ...

Mombasa Best and Worst Bits
Jan 15, 2009

Mombasa, Kenya (Finlays): This third part to my second placement was a latter addition to explore the much talked about "must see" coast, and tea auctioning in person (which I had read about on Jonathan's TTW 07/08 blog). I thought my experiences couldn't ...

Fort Jesus
Aug 1, 2006 (45 photos)

Later

BVAWT015 - HKMO
Sep 22, 2008

HKMO - Moi International Airport

Mombasa
Nov 27, 2008 (38 photos)

Forthcoming

Learning about the Swahili culture
Jul 18, 2006 (15 photos)

Text is pending ...

Hitting the beach
Nov 9, 2006 (2 photos)

After our safari we went to the Indian Ocean, the beaches south of Mombasa, gorgeous sand and warm water. Unfortuneately there was a tremendous amount of rain and so we got down to school work and made the best of our time there. The day we left a major ...

Mombasa, Diani Beach... attack of the jellyfish
Feb 21, 2009 (14 photos)

... quite interesting, everything looked exactly like the middle east you see on the news... only no bomb! From Nairobi I flew down to Mombasa to meet Heather Macleod (best friends since babies) from here on I will call her HM. Once I arrived in Mombasa there ...

Mombasa
Apr 12, 2009 (5 photos)

Jambo! Mombasa is Kenya's second largest city located on an island on the southeast coast and has a large Muslim population.  From the moment I arrived I noticed the temperature difference.  It is extremely hot and humid here and I haven't ...

MEANDERING IN MOMBASA
Apr 6, 2008

... , Liverpool.  I walked to historic Fort Jesus but wasn't interested in roaming through the fort, especially for $13. US..Mombasa has an interesting mixture of Arabs, native blacks, and Hindu Indians, many of the latter had been brought to Africa ...

Mombasa and degree results
Jun 21, 2009

... my maths degree and I got 2:1 so we celebrated with a very strange mini bottle of sparkling wine Today we have come back to Mombasa to do nothing interesting. Tomorrow we catch an 8 hour coach journey to Dar es Salaam to pick up Dan and then its straight ...

Bits of beautiful Kenya
Aug 24, 2008 (8 photos)

... our way to Mombasa for our much anticipated visit from Alistair. The objective of Alistair's visit to Mombasa was primarily business but an additional contributing factor was the Tamarind restaurant in Mombasa which serves the ...

Amboseli in the Shadow of the Mighty Kilimanjaro
Feb 12, 2007 (1 photos)

Mombasa, Kenya Excursion:  World Heritage Site Amboseli Game Preserve in the shadow of Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. Time: Well, of course they told us to be ready at 6:30AM, and naturally we didn't leave the ship until  ...