Mtwapa, Kenya Travel Blogs

Kwetu Training Center
Apr 12, 2006 (10 photos)

... met an Amerikan student named Maggie Quinn studying abroad and interning at Kwetu. She invited me to stay with her host family in Mtwapa. It sounded better than staying alone out at Kwetu. Her host family was a mama and her four daughters. Mama cooked up ...

Around Mtwapa
Apr 13, 2006 (10 photos)

I woke up with "Let Live" playing in my head. Mama had prepared some coconut cowpeas with chapati for breakfast. Maggie and I set out to visit Haller Park. Haller Park was a few kilometers south, by the big Bamburi Cement plant. It was a quarry for the ...

More Jambo Jipya
Sep 10, 2006 (5 photos)

I cant believe how fast the time is flying in here! The DVD and popcorn went down a treat. We'd originally asked for the Lion King to be shown but as I suspect some of the lads had a few words with the owner in Swahilli after as when we settled down to ...

Its Half Term and the Schools and Orphanges closed
Feb 27, 2009

... what everyone else throws out.   I'm starting to count my blessings; we are all very lucky. The Housekeeper at MCC (Mtwapa Creek B&B) is a lovely guy called Khamis (pronounced Ha-me-see) who is only twenty although he looks much older and ...

Mtwapa, Matatus and Matakos
Aug 28, 2006 (5 photos)

... no kidding myself anymore is there... I'm teaching however about an hour up the coast in a small african village called Mtwapa. Its a really friendly place, fairly typically small african village with all that goes with that, and not a flushing toilet ...

Some Pictures from Jambo Jipya
Aug 31, 2006 (5 photos)

Been a strange week so far but all good. The teaching is defintely getting easier - the secret is building lots of song and dance and tickles and hugs into it. Mind you the 'smiley stamps' in their booklet if by the end of the day Teacher hasn't had to ...