Mombasa was amazing!!! White sandy beaches and bright blue water!!! Coul not have asked for more. Our bus ride was over night but because the highways here consist of bumpy roads no real concrete....i didnt sleep a wink. which means i was awake for the time we almost hit a giraffe. That was exciting...
we arrived in mombasa at 6 a.m. and took three matatus and a fairy to get to our beachalet at Diani Beach. after we got settled in we took a walk up the beach and headed up to a market to get some food for the weekend....we found a grocery store that had dr pepper and i about freaked out. i have been craving a dr pepper for weeks and i finally found one! was so very exciting. after the market we had some lunch and headed to the beach for several hours of laying in the sun. and then hanging out on our porch that over looks the beach becuase (it was right on hte beach).
day 2 consisted of too much laying out being sunburnt and then headed to this place called 40 thieves. this place was our life line while there. they had american food! that was also AMAZING! i had pizza and fried foods. I wouldnt believe how much i missed that crap. we hung out here for several hours which was also right on the beach and booked snorkleing for sunday. we also took a nice little walk on the beach taht evening while the sun set and it was so beautiful.
Day 3 we woke up nice and early to head out for out snorkle adventure. we went out to the coral and were able to swim around for 2 hours with all kinds of fish i got to hold a star fish and we saw several eels. that creeped me out. oh and a million sea urchins (sp). those are also creepy big and black with very large spikes..... the weather was perfect and sunny all weekend with some cloud cover but not to bad.
day 4 we went into mombasa tpo see Fort Jesus which was ....interesting. But very hot this was the hottest day by far and i couldnt stand it anymore with the 90 percent humidity....so we headed to a nice cool place ate some dinner and hung out where i hate tons of ice cream and waited for out bus hom.
i had so much fun and loved every single mintute of it......me and sara and marth ( two girls from my intake who have become pretty good friends with) and julia my roommate really enjoyed ourselves and i didnt want to leave exceot that i very much hate humidity!
Wish i could write more but my computer sucks today...just know that i am nice and tan and had an amazing time laying on the beach for four days....oh and on my last day i rode a camal up and down the beach as well....and the camal tried to bite me but that cool....was still worth it....
the bus ride home was slightly more stressful....we almost hit a VERY large elephant with our bus and then about 10 mins later we spotted a bus turned over on its side...which freaked me out but i am home safe now.....
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