Travellers Beach Kenya

It's a l….o…..n…..g way from Laguna Beach to Travellers Beach, a hotel on the shore of the Indian Ocean just north of Mombasa. Via London and Nairobi, more than 30 hours door-to-door to be precise. And the hotel’s quite literally, ...

... appointment scheduled with a Kenyan activist and writer to interview him for an article I am working on about International Law in Kenya.  It was a good meeting with a lot of good information, including a signed copy of his book being released this ...

... about 30 minutes through the town to our beachside resort.  We are staying at the same place we usually stay, the Travellers Beach Resort (http://www.travellersbeach.com).  It is our third trip here and many of the staff members remember ...

... trip if I have the time. They take you far out on a boat to a reef area where you can then swim/snorkel around and see all the cool marine life. However, I'm also ready to come home...we leave Kenya on Saturday...only two more days till then. Jeni ...

... was meeting up with some Kenyan friends from Naivasha, Kate, a fellow JHB acquaintance who works for UNICEF and some Cape Town travellers I'd met in Dar es Salaam- I was looking forward to fellow South African Easter weekend company! We stayed for 2 ...

... his name, but I do know that he has three wives of which he is very proud of and that he rarely changes his clothes. But he told us of a great beach and brings us decent food for breakfest. From the currently cholera and bird flu-free ...

... and have had aboslutely no internet or phone usage for over 2 weeks.  I am now in my second camp near Diani Beach in a small vollage called Makongeni, and they have an interent cafe so i will be able to hopefully do more weekly updates. Anyways ...

... it was funny. I never associated beaches with Kenya, but I would love to go back to Lamu. It is well set up for travellers without being over commercial - nice, very nice. Well that's about it for now. On Sunday I join the Kumuka truck for a 49 ...

... . It's really not an attractive city. I got robbed! No, not by a mugger...by the freakin' currency exchange people. I had some US$ travellers' checks and they changed it into SA Rand then back to US$ AND charged a commission on top of that! Geesh, I ended ...

... a big village where the locals are hosting a few tourists.There are only a handful of restaurants so you end up meeting a lot of travellers around over and over and sharing a beers and become friends. I also found here again a gal that I had met before ...

... recommend more as a holiday destination... all i can think about is going back... email me if u want more info... it is a place that would suit ALL travellers (i went solo, am female aged 23) but would be great for honeymooners/families/young ...

... out, with not a wrinkle in sight. Next we had the two (east) German girls who were staying there. Professional travellers, the sort one sees in well worn sandals, faded sarongs and the inevitable rucksack from which they could probably produce ...

... the temperature has cooled off dramatically. We arrive at our hotel in Swakopmund at 4 PM.  The name of it is the Amanpuri Travellers Lodge.  There are no sheets on either of the twin beds and no place to hang bath towels in the bathroom.  ...

... (more, ah, me.) We crossed over to Dar es Salaam via ferry, arriving three minutes before departure. Punctured tires, German travellers wanting us to pay their taxi fare and some irritating customs officers (yes, we are still in Tanzania) accounted for ...

... ourselves silly! We travelled a little further to a large local market where we were given a name at random of one of our fellow travellers and told to buy them a fancy dress outfit! The market sold loads of second hand clothes - it was a WI dream come ...

... with no brakes. This could have happened in the last 10 minutes, or 10 years.    We have no problem cashing travellers' cheques at the bank. Posters on the wall indicate they will lend to anyone for anything, so TC's shouldn't be a problem. ...

... looking forward to seeing the sea! So in the bag went......sunglasses, suntan cream, swimming costume, passport to change travellers cheques....passport.....passport.......... eeeeeek! Where is it?! I got that 'heavy slab of concrete just landed in the ...