Last Sunday

We have around 48 hours left before we head home. Today we decided it would be mad to be in Mombasa and not see the beach so, courtesy of the guide book advice, we went 20km out of town on the bikes to Tiwi beach. We caught a quick ferry which we seemed to manage to not pay for and followed the road out of Mombasa. We missed the turn and pulled off the road to ask for directions. The beach we were told was straight down the road. The road led us to a very minor track which led past dwellings and into smaller and smaller paths until we arrived at a clearing where there was a tiny mosque and a well. We followed on deeper into the bush and finaly hit the road we had missed. 

Mucking about

 After some mucking about we went into the Amani resort club where we were told for could have a drink and some lunch and hang out on the beach. Perfect! So that is what we did from around 11.30am-5.00pm 

Indian Ocean

Martin's feet

  

Paul with his new friend

The colours on the beach were stunning and the people around were also so colourful. It was yet another experience of Africa we were glad to have had.

Martin did buy a few trinkets from the guys on the beach. (Remember the Auribeau necklaces?? Does he never learn!). This is the moment at which they asked him - genuinely - if his father would be interested in buying anything from them. 

 He isn't my father he is my grand father

Selling beach wraps

Local Muslim girls

Stunning Colours

We caught the ferry back and popped out for supper into Mombasa town and had an excellent end of trip Chinese. We discussed highlights and disappointments of the last four weeks, we both struggled to find any disappointments and could not single out the highlights as there have been so many. We took a ‘tuk-tuk’ back to the hotel which was great fun.
 

Tomorrow is a down day. We need to contact Humphrey our shipper, sort out our flights home and visit the spice market. Tuesday flights are very late so will go armed with books and ipods to pass the time.