AfroChic Diani
Travel Blogs from Diani
To the 'desert' and back!
... are constantly discovering orphaned children on what seems to be a weekly basis. One main source of orphans is the result of death of their mothers as a result of prostitution combined with drugs and alcohol, which in a HIV positive woman is pretty much a death sentence. The children are left to fend for themselves just like the thousands of orphans throughout the country. Again another striking difference in this particular area is the slum areas. The ...
Anna's Special Day-7th Birthday to a special girl
... out of stone. The kids took notes without even being asked and were so interested in everything. Our guide was very strict – and the Bakari and Hadija took the **** out of him when we got home mimicking his behaviour. Talk about laugh – they had us in stitches laughing and I was crying with their role play of the guide, and in such good English. We had lunch at a small restaurant in the old town, which is made up of Portugese and ...
My return to Kenya
... like Aussie restaurants) and had a lovely chicken biryani, with biryani rice and salad, with banana for dessert and also a passionfruit juice all for $4.00 Australian. It was a huge meal, but I was starving as hadn’t eaten since lunch the day before.
Friday 6th January 2012
Kerry and Patrick picked me up at 10:00am with some tourists who wanted to see the orphanage from the UK. A granny and her 3 granddaughters. I could see ...
Discounty Dishes
... was on cloud nine. The four boys ordered huge portions of chips (French fries), a cabbage salad and meat rolls while Lilly ordered a Kebab and a chicken. I stuck with a coke and Christy and Devon got waters. The kids loved the restaurant but we opted out of ordering any food at Discounty Dishes since we’ve been so sick lately, we didn’t want to contribute to any other parasites in our bodies. The chicken still had hairs on ...
Staff Appreciation Day
This week was exam week for the kids, and perfect timing for all of the volunteers to get hit with sickness. 3 of us volunteers got Amoebiasis from the water and have been super sick. We have been using a filtration system in the sink but are not sure it works entirely. A few days ago, Christy and I went to the local Doctor (which we later found out is actually not a Doctor), and did some tests and he found Amoebiasis. Super bad stomach ...
Amenities
- Room service
- Swimming pool
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Restaurant
- Business Services
- Free parking