Planhotel Malindi Beach Hotel

... 30 other people to meet the bride who was sat hidden in a veil being fanned. The veil was lifted and a 15 minute ceremony took place in which they fed each other to symbolise providing for each other in the future.

We then went outside for a 3rd breakfast (This was about 11am) of pilau rice and mandaazi and to listen to more singing from the women - the song was apparently referring to how the women were bored and the groom should ...

Malindi is a popular tourist town with scenic beauty, clean white beaches and a lot of history located on the East Coast of Kenya,

Malindi also referred to as the Coral Coast provides a very nice introduction to the beautiful Kenyan coast. Visitors can experience surfing ...

We caught a Matatu all the way to Malindi from Mombasa ( not the most comfortable 2 hours, but very reasonably priced at 2 pounds. We would have gone by proper bus but couldn't find the bus station. In Malindi it was raining heavily, but our hotel was comfortable and empty. We went to the local Italian for dinner, which we couldn't find but collected another new friend on the way who ...

... Wort-Lernen konzipiert wurde, und so war das Bueffeln der Kapitel drei bis fuenf eine Sache von nur noch einigen wenigen Stunden. Dementsprechend auch mein Testergebnis: 49 von 50 Fragen richtig beantwortet - 38 haetten fuers Bestehen schon gereicht. So konnte mir Baya, froh ueber eiunen weiteren Absolventen, meinen Taucherausweis ueberreichen - wenns auch nur ein temporaerer ist, bevor ich von PADI meinen richtigen zugeschickt bekomme ...

... fuer ein paar Schillinge mehr gabs sogar nen Drop-Off wo auch immer man hin wollte, doch irgendwie konnten wir selbst mit Hilfe einer Karte der Stadt mein Ziel nicht finden. Es sollte ein Campingplatz mit ein paar Huetten direkt am Strand sein, aber wahrscheinlich gibts den jetzt nicht mehr. Dann gings in meine Ausweichmoeglichkeit, ein Hotel Richtung Stadtmitte, doch so ein Rattenloch hab ich auf meiner Reise ueberhaupt noch nicht gesehen... Vor allem, als mir die Badezimmer ...

... East Africa... I've met all the Kenya Red Cross co-ordinators aswell they're really nice! I've already been to a few schools. On Thursday I visited the prison. The primary focus was to trace a girls family in the Congo. She's in prison here and has no contact with her family. We also brought a letter to another guy who's in prison here. The rural areas are so lovely. The children all shout Mzungu at me and wave and chase the trucks. You've probably heard that Mzungu ...

... just let them go straightaway or else they wet themselves. Also noticed this week too that one of my brighter sparks was particulary listless and kept flaking out on the floor. I thought he might be bored or the level too low for him so I kept bringing him to the board to do extra. I finally lost it with him when he stretched out on the floor as if to go to sleep. I found out at lunchtime when I commented on it that he actually has Malaria and has been walking 5 miles to school ...

... prawns and fish in symbiosis with the mangrove forests, which provide many useful woods and medicines. They have constructed two large damns that fill up in high tide. They also have a network of boardwalks in the mangrove trees where they cage-farm giant crabs. I couldn't believe how big these crabs were. When I returned to the cages to take a photo the tide had come in and was even covering the boardwalk. But you could still walk on it. It was a trip ...

... manages to defy all laws of nature, even across the road from the beach, the humidity is out of control. On a different note, my hotmail inbox does not seem to be getting the work out it once used to. I want emails, lots of emails, i am starting to feel forgotten and unloved. The lame excuses for lack of email will have to be faced upto in person in a few short months, and it could get ugly. All for now, beach is calling. Did i mention the sand is silver like there is glitter in it?

This morning, we drove to the Gedi ruins and wandered around. Gedi was a typical Arab city in the 15th Century. It was a pretty big city. It had two walls, a palace, many mosques, and tons of houses and wells. We also visited the small museum. Then we drove to Malindi. We had ocean-view rooms. Ann and I went swimming until lunch, then we just lazed about. We drove to town to go shopping in the afternoon.