Woke up to glorious sunshine as the rain the previous night didn’t last long. I headed straight for a splash in the ocean and was so nice to feel the warm water. However the sea is very shallow around here and there is a lot of rock with some sort of razor shell attached to it lurking not far below the surface. I managed to give myself a decent sized gash in my foot but the very salty water helped to heal it.
I came back and had breakfast and decided to take it easy for the day and not venture too far. I had to organise to get to Nairobi on Tuesday to be there to collect Simba on Wednesday morning.
The area where the hotel is located is a bit outside Mombasa so I just pottered around a bit for the morning before taking a taxi to a local shopping centre.
As it is not possible to book the Nairobi train without being registered with a national payment scheme called M-Pesa I went into a local agent to see if he could book it for me. After a lot of beaurocratic ping pong he booked a seat for me on the Tuesday afternoon train for the six hour journey. However he could only get me an €8 second class seat as €15 first class was booked out. Should be interesting!
The possibility of doing a one day safari from here was an idea worth exploring and, after a bit of research and emailing, managed to confirm one for Sunday.
I came back to the hotel and decided not to have dinner there as mediocre is the kindest thing that I could say about the food there. Local people are extremely friendly but one doesn’t come to east Africa in search of culinary experience. So it was nice to try some place different and it wasn’t too bad.
I got back to the hotel early to get a great view of the “red moon” that everyone was talking about and that was especially spectacular in this part of the world….
ZIGZAGGING AFRICA BY MOTORBIKE 