Coast of Kenya

When you are sitting by beachside of Kenyan coast, Mombassa, you won’t feel like being in Kenya or in any African countries. Mombassa is located in the Indian Ocean. It should be a nice town, however, I didn’t have the chance to walk around it while my short stay. Sherri and I spent 3 days around both North and South coasts of Mombassa, therefore, we didn’t really see the town much. The three days stayed at Mombassa, I felt like I was in Okinawa or Bali that kind of vacation resort. We were really relaxing ourselves over there—that we ate pretty well and a lot, we did nothing almost everyday but eating, drinking, sunbathing and water-playing.

The first day when we arrived at Mombassa, the very first thing we done was booked our safari trip to Tesvo National Park and Amboseli National Park. After that, we both were very tired after the over 10 hours coach journey from Nairobi to Mombassa. It was noon time when we finally got to our accommodation at the North coast of Mombassa. After a quick shower, we had our first feast with a whole fish at a restaurant nearby which is facing the blue and shine Indian Ocean. What a nice view and way to start our first sightseeing at Mombassa.

After lunch, we went to the Ngomongo village where we got to know more about the tribes of Kenya. It is a theme village collects homesteads and completes with permanent inhabitants in living styles and matching dresses of 10 different Kenyan tribes. Apart from that, there are some hands-on, dancing and musical activities waiting for you to experience.

We spent our 2nd and 3rd day at South coast of Mombassa and we loved Diani beach at south coast so much. We went nowhere but Diani beach and two same restaurants there for straight 2 days. Sherri and I both fell in love with Diani beach and it is so cool to swim or even just put our feet in the Indian Ocean—so we spent two afternoons to enjoy our first encounter with Indian Ocean. We went rowing the paddle-boat, canoeing and Sherri even went snorkelling. It should be the most enjoyable thing to immerse yourself into the cold and clear ocean while the weather is so hot. Sherri and I went to have a drink right after the water sport over these 2 days—what an ease life!! Then we would just walk along the sand toward another restaurant for dinner (the key reason for eating at that restaurant was they offer free-shuttle picking up and dropping off service).

I love water, sea and ocean and the scenery by the beachside of Indian Ocean is really great. While I was staying at coasts of Mombassa, there was no need to worry about too much, no need to think about the danger of travelling in an African country, no need to pay too much attention to people around you—you could just simply enjoy a true beach vacation.