Travellers Mwaluganje Elephant Camp Mombasa

... our once white vehicle which shows no sign of it's original color. The hardened sand beneath us changes to a rich golden orange color. The dust appears in increasing swarms around our car. What serves as a road is questionable. Galleys form on either side of our 4 wheels. Hardly much life exists here, but somewhere just ahead we know there is a school.

The arrival of our vehicle is a huge event! Uniformed girls gather outside of the 10 ...

... room to interview one of the women, named Celina, to have her expand on her story a bit.  This was the hardest thing I’ve had to do since I got here because her story was so hard to hear face to face and one on one like that.  Here is her story:

Celina was married to a man named Tom, who was part of the Luo tribe and Celina is part of the Kikuyu tribe.  Her husband passed away in 2002 and the other Luos said that he was sick because he was bewitched ...

... Forest (which is essentially is Marie and Kaka's back yard out here) is an interesting site of a once thriving Arab village where a community, where what I can only assume dwarfs used to dwell in tiny midgit houses all clumped together and once occupied by wealthy merchants who used the Creek to trade. You can just about make the remains of a village of some 20 houses and a mosque, which was built in the 13th century which has slowly over the centuries been ...

... fish rot in the galley! These locals don't have refridgeration at home let alone on a dowh). So we all change nails, unfortunately my soft netting is now occupied by fisherman who need to untangle it from the water; a few minutes later calm and peace are restored and we spent the next 45 minutes all admiring the Kenyan coast and creek. I only wish I could have enjoyed that experience with some of you, a few ice cold beers and just maybe a tad ...

... a local singing celebrity, Prince Adio, MC'ing for us and hopefully performing as well. Keep your fingers crossed that it goes well this afternoon! Another thing to keep your fingers crossed for is my music video debut! Prince Adio has asked me be in one of his upcoming music videos and although I flat out said NO for hours straight, the other volunteers and my temporary insanity led me to agree. Although the other volunteers were hoping the video would ...

... the hardiest of souls sad. Anyway more of that later; I didn't come here to exploit the corruption - unless you've lived with your head under a blanket you'll know that most African Governments are corrupt in varying degress, politically and financially very unstable; it's terrible that a continent with so many natural reserves like oil and gold and other valuable minerals has so much poverty. Literally hundreds of thousands of people die on this ...

... wegschaute, um nach mein** Kam**a zu kramen, hat dann auch mein neu** Kumpel das Int**esse an mir v**loren und zog gemuetlich von dannen. Geil! Was in d** Folge ebenfalls noch hinzu kam, waren ein paar Zebras (schoen, ab** scheu) und eine Gruppe Phacocho**us africanus - Warzenschweine. Auch wenn die richtig fette Hau** haben, haben die viel viel Schiss vor einem Menschen und haben sich bei meinem Anblick ebenfalls gleich aus dem Staub gemacht. Meine Kam**a ist eh nicht so ...

... was warm and you could walk to the edge of the reef in sturdy foot ware (because of the urchins) where the sea was brimming with beautiful fish.  The hotel could provide you with wind surfers,  small sailing boats, snorkels masks and fins. You could book all sorts of trips in the hotel but we booked our Safari against their wishes with a contact given to us from one of the beach Lads that prowled the beach  each side of the hotels beach ...

... from mums pretending to be aunties so that they can get the kids in and they dissapear, to a mum bringing in wee Hope a 3 y.o (who is the size of a 6mth old) and threatening to throw her of a bridge if she was not taken in. so you see the emotion you are feeling reading this is x 100 when you are here, and we see their faces laughing smiling throwing food (but cleaning up after of their own free will) We get to play with them for 1 ...

... and falling the baby seized its chance and charged kicking me in the face and trying to crush me with its head i put up my feet to stop the baby from getting to my chest which resulted in the sprained ankles its all fun and games went in the helicopter day it was amazing we nearly hit a boa tree and seeing the elephants from the air is much easier as they bloody things seem to appear from no were when on the ground cant belive what i am saying that the biggest land ...