Nairobi and Mombasa
About Nairobi and Mombassa
Well... we made it to Kenya. It was a really tough journey. Five days on a bus and a lorry to cover 1,450 Km, the Ethiopian half nicely paved, the Kenyan side a rough rough journey. Nairobi has been a treat. We saw 'Madagascar' but missed 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'. There are some good restaurants which we have enjoyed, such as Carnivore, where they cook all sorts of meat over a huge round barbeque. We tasted crocodile and ostrich among others.
It's a real shame that the streets get so dangerous at night. We had to take a taxi if we wanted to go out after dark for fear of getting robbed.
We did a short safari in the Masai Mara National Park, which was beautiful, and then took the lunatic express to Mombasa on the Indian Ocean. The overnight train stopped a few hours before Mombasa due to a derailment further up the track. Mombasa was really nice but on our first evening, we returned from dinner to our hotel room to find that someone had broken in stolen our cameras. Our gorgeous photos of the safari were gone! We were gutted.
The old town is a magical labyrinth of narrow streets, ornate doors with Arab inscriptions and upper balconies with intricate latticed wood and iron work. Through an open gate we spotted the blue sea. When we went over to see more, we saw men unloading sacks of grain from a ship by hand, bending under the heavy weight and the strong sun. We wandered around peaceful Fort Jesus and took a couple of day trips down the coast to balmy Tiwi Beach for swims and sunburn.
We'll write lots more soon. Drop us a note if you can.
Malachy
Well... we made it to Kenya. It was a really tough journey. Five days on a bus and a lorry to cover 1,450 Km, the Ethiopian half nicely paved, the Kenyan side a rough rough journey. Nairobi has been a treat. We saw 'Madagascar' but missed 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'. There are some good restaurants which we have enjoyed, such as Carnivore, where they cook all sorts of meat over a huge round barbeque. We tasted crocodile and ostrich among others.
It's a real shame that the streets get so dangerous at night. We had to take a taxi if we wanted to go out after dark for fear of getting robbed.
We did a short safari in the Masai Mara National Park, which was beautiful, and then took the lunatic express to Mombasa on the Indian Ocean. The overnight train stopped a few hours before Mombasa due to a derailment further up the track. Mombasa was really nice but on our first evening, we returned from dinner to our hotel room to find that someone had broken in stolen our cameras. Our gorgeous photos of the safari were gone! We were gutted.
The old town is a magical labyrinth of narrow streets, ornate doors with Arab inscriptions and upper balconies with intricate latticed wood and iron work. Through an open gate we spotted the blue sea. When we went over to see more, we saw men unloading sacks of grain from a ship by hand, bending under the heavy weight and the strong sun. We wandered around peaceful Fort Jesus and took a couple of day trips down the coast to balmy Tiwi Beach for swims and sunburn.
We'll write lots more soon. Drop us a note if you can.
Malachy
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