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The Coast

A travel blog entry by samdendy

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... bike/car things with a carriage in the back – hard to explain but have a look at some of the photos. When we got off of the bus we caught a tuktuk to the ferry. The ferry transports people across a river/lake thing connecting the city and outer Mombasa. The ferry ride is free and it’s packed to the rafters. We had to be careful with our luggage because pickpocketers are quite common. From there we caught a matatu to Diani Beach where we planned to stay for a ...

Donkeys and Dhows

A travel blog entry by texasnomads

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... from completely out of nowhere. There’s literally nothing out here! So we’d pick up her and her chickens, and she’d set them down at Aaron’s feet for awhile til they managed to crawl somewhere else. We’d stop in small towns so the drivers and other bus riders could say hi to their friends for 45 minutes and then continue. It was painful. But we did get to see lots of baboons playing on the side of the road, which kinda ...

A little slice of paradise on the Kenyan coast

A travel blog entry by julesandjen

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... her chocolate ice cream so it‘s no surprise that she was devastated when it turned up as a bowl of mildly cold chocolate sauce!!! My banana ‘ice cream’ wasn‘t much better, a slightly more chilled bowl of banana mush! Disappointed we sat on the balcony as the sun set and admired the beauty around us - again very glad of our decision but saddened by the ice cream fiasco ;o)




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My time in Kimori

A travel blog entry by marrakeshtocape

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... for 'dear' or 'daughter'), I have no idea. I also later found out that she'd been in Kericho and seen me from afar (in slightly creepy psycho killer style way) but had got public transport back home as there wasn't room in the car and so had arrived back just a short while before us. We then had a very late tea of rice, potatoes and beans - a meal that I didn't realise would be so memorably abnormal until we'd gone for two weeks with ugali for tea every night and rice and ...

Local warmth in Lamu

A travel blog entry by hopskipstagger

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... the bus had broken down and we spent the next hour stuck in the middle of nowhere. The final part of the journey involved a 30 minute ferry ride to the island of Lamu, on board a boat crammed to bursting point with people, luggage and supplies for the island.

We had arrived and we were exhausted and we still needed to find a place to stay. We resisted the help of the hotel tout that loiter around the jetty as ...

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