Mombasa Ra-ha = there is fun in Mombasa.

I spent 4 days last week at Coral Cove Cottages on Tiwi Beach about 25km south of Mombasa. The beach was quiet and clean. It was a nice break from Nairobi and reminded me alot of Bali. We travelled there by bus, taking about 7 hours at night. I will never ever complain about the state of roads in South Australia ever again after that experience. My coccyx hurt. The cottage was one of 5 well spaced out in a luch tropical garden. The lady that runs the cottages is a bit…eccentric and keeps a ‘troop’ of blue-testicled monkeys who took it upon themselves to enter the cottage kitchen while the door was open and relieve us of 4 bananas and a bag of cashew nuts. Locals came by the cottage daily to sell fresh seafood and fruit and veg. We ate well. And I swam in the Indian Ocean for the first time in my life. We relied on tides to provide us with deep enough water to swim in at the beach but when the tide was out we walked around the point to a rock pool that is the shape of the map of Africa and even includes Madagascar. Checked out Fort Jesus and had a few more Matatu experiences.

Heading for Lilongwe, Malawi on Sunday.