Finally got the crew to Kenya. After hearing about Kenya for a few years now, I finally had the chance to go myself with the whole family. Getting there and back is an experience all to itself, and not in such a good way. It takes forever to get over there as it is almost exactly half way around the world. But there were a few small mentionable things in the travel itself:
The Doha Qatar airport was awesome
Got to see Mt Kilimanjaro from the window of our last flight to Mombasa
Heard a prayer in Arabic while in Doha
Barely made our last connection from Nairobi to Mombasa
I will say though, once we got there, it was all worth it and I would 100% recommend anyone from any developed country in the world to visit a place like Kenya. When we finally landed in Mombasa we jumped in a pro box and headed to our resort, but there was so much to see on the drive there. Seeing the way some of these people lived was extremely eye opening and also a little entertaining in some ways. The painted took-tooks and matatus were hilarious, seeing how many people and bags of things people piled on motorbikes was also a spectacle. The city itself was crazy, the trash piles, crumbling buildings and general quality of life made it very easy for me to be grateful for what we have back here at home.
The food was either one of two things, fresh fruit or toxic anything else. The fruit was incredible and there were for sure safe places to eat but you had to be careful and even so I got a pretty bad bout of food poisoning. I will say though that the fresh mangos, pineapple, Kenyan oranges, passionfruit etc were incredible. It was cool to learn and use a few words in Swahili while we were there. Jambo, Asante, Karibu, Mzungu. Always enjoy hearing a different language. Even their English over there sounds different and is fun to hear.
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