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East Africa Tour Part 6 – Mombasa
We arrived on the train from Kenya as described in part 5, and took a taxi to the excellent Tamarind Village Hotel situated over a bridge from the city centre. Mombasa is on the Indian Ocean north of Dar el Salaam in Tanzania and just south of the Somalia border. We struck lucky with the […]
East Africa Tour Part 5 – Nairobi to Mombasa
Our final port of call on our African adventure would be by the Indian Ocean. We chose the train as our way of getting there. Nairobi to Mombasa Train As part of their belt & road policy, the Chinese have built a wonderful railway line from capital to coast. It features three passenger trains a […]
East African Adventure
I am just back from 17-days in the east of Africa. It was a wonderful trip in very hospitable lands. It started with a flight change from Heathrow (ended up flying Rwandair to Lusaka via Kigali instead of via Nairobi with Kenya Airways), involved an aborted train journey (Lusaka to Livingstone 11-hours late, awful compartment/rabbit […]
