Flamboyant Ukunda

... be dinner sorted…..Time for sundowners…..As we prepare our seafood delicacy the sky turns a deep pink and the huge gold-silver full moon rises over the calm water in front of us. Life could really not be more perfect.

So the planned three nights turn to four, then six and finally after ten blissful days we sadly leave this slow moving piece of peace and drive back to Nairobi. Within three ...

... walk down there though!! Also - Diani Beach is one hour away from us. It's bascially paradise with white sands, palm trees and clear blues waters. Turns out I (Lucy) need to get over my shark woes though. Swam about 30 m out yesterday and got a bit freaked out that one would come through the waves and eat me. Doofus.

We're in Diani again this weekend and have definitely come round to the matatu after our initial misgivings. They're ...

... for the next day. Our next adventure is a camping trip in the South Western part of Uganda for a gorilla trek, estimated departure time 5:00 AM. PS, forgott to mention that we also say some beautiful colobus monkeys, and they didn't rob us! In Diani beach they have ladders going over the roads that the monkeys use so they don't get hit by cars (see pics). Also saw a crazy huge family of baboons running along side our taxi... no pics though. But they were so cute...even had babies.

... fiel. Wie auch das Fort in Lamu wurde sie danach fuer eine Zeit lang als Gefaengis fuer die kenianische Justiz verwendet, bevor sie 1960 vom Volk der Touris eingenommen wurde (danke an unseren Reiseleiter in Diani fuer diesen bestechenden Wortwitz). Dorthin begleitet wurde ich von einem Einheimischen mit unaussprechlichem Namen, den ich erst abzuschuetteln versuchte, weil ich ihn fuer einen der zahllosen Safari-Quaelgeister hier hielt, doch ...

... everyone out *fter nine pm is * hooker,f*ct! it hil*rious " white m*n, come with me! i tre*t you nice! *nd blowing me kisses *ll night,h*! *nd just to fill you in. there *re bl*ck *fric*ns in the toilets here too! not white ones! i'm trying to get pictures up, but its just not h*ppening! i rented * room with * english guy c*lled peter for the l*st two nights, 1300shillings per night,*bout 6 euro fiddy e*ch, *nd moved to my f*ncy hotel tod*y ...

I grew up as a little boy in Tanzania. The first real holliday I remember was going to Mombasa. Today one of Kenyas top tourist destinations. Back then just a sensational beach -wich I guess it still is..In the mid seventies my parents took us here for hollidays. I think I went to Mombasa three times. I will get my Dad to scann some pictures. Pictures of my Mum ...

... told us how palm trees came to be inland in Kenya. Originally, palms were only on the coast. In fact, so were elephants--as little as 20 years ago, you could see elephants cavorting in the ocean. As the elephants were driven inland by people because the coast is prime real estate, the elephants carried seeds from the coconuts they'd eaten and the seeds were distributed inland via the ellies "poo-poo". The Africans we saw in Kenya were makedly different than those we saw in Cape ...

... everywhere. The project I managed to set up was with a number of schools and also a community center where by our volunteers could work in schools during the day coaching sports and then coach sports at the community center after school. Final thoughts on Kenya My overall impressions of Kenya were quite good, I didn't really get to see much of the country because I was working all the time but outside of Mombasa the beach areas were very beautiful.

... into the new "cholera" warning due to lack of water. But the headliner of todays' paper is about the over 400 chickens found dead, dumped beside a deserted road in Nairobi. Within the week tests will be in whether it's due to Bird Flu. Or, one could chose to read the story about prisoners who escaped jail via hacksaw and haven't been found or the ongoing famine, or tribal clashes resulting in ...

... alleen' reizen, opeens oog in oog te staan
met mijn oude bazin in badpak! Echt superleuk, Akke was meteen heel hartelijk
en ook alle andere dames namen me meteen op in de groep.
Eerst had ik nog een eigen goedkoop hotelletje genomen in de buurt, maar
Akke vond dat ik niet zo gek moest doen en dat ik gewoon bij haar op de
kamer mocht komen slapen, er stonden toch 2 bedden. En zo geschiedde!
Het is niet ...