Villa Beach Resort
Travel Blogs from Kiwengwa
Doing Time on the Rock
... to, with varying degrees of clarity, see all sorts of tropical fish, more giant evil blooms of spiky pain sea urchins, dozens of sea stars, a couple sea snakes (or eels, I wasn’t quite sure—I saw them towards the end of a breath and couldn’t relocate them), sea cucumbers, and all the different types of soft, hard, bulbous, smooth, and etc. protrusions that make up a coral reef. I’ll complain just once more about the equipment because in my case it made ...
Generously Endhowed
... to the beach, and commenced with the shena****ns. My first shena****n was to swim in surprisingly rough water all the way out to a set of empty fishing dhows anchored maybe a 300 yards out to sea only to discover that, of course, they had no ladders and the sides were too high to access from the water and staying within sloshing distance of one was a stellar way to get brained by several tons of mahogany, so instead of diving off of them I swam back chastened. ...
Some things we do just for fun..and then we forget
... because we cant laugh under water and that's all we were doing. The water was getting really bad at this point so we tried to get back to the boat which was easier said than done (because the water was not like a millpond) ,,, so after a brief panic we made it,, had a little jump of the roof and then headed to the shore for the tuna fish which we'd dropped of on the way there. Headed back to the village after lunch but this too was hard ...
L'ile aux epices
... du jour, finalement très bon.
Le jeu de société local est le Bao, qui existe aussi en europe, probablement sous un autre nom qu'en Swahili. Nous nous y initions à la lueur des bougies: sur l'île, l'électricité est coupée une heure par jour, village par village, car l'approvisionnement est trop faible. Mais chacun est équipé de générateur à essence qu'ils démarrent rapidement.
En ville, nous faisons la connaissance de Suzanne, une allemande qui se lance dans ...
Day 40: Exploring Stone town:
... looking buildings… lots of balconies and lots of pillars with nice clock tower. Inside is a museum, where we saw a dhow boat, some staff from the arabs and also a Book from Stanley where he wrote done the names of the people going inland with him and David Livingstones medicine back – not very big was there too. The best I thought was that we could go out on the balcony on the 2nd floor and ...