Photo Mix – Mombasa / Mtwapa

Bombolulu workshop – very worth a visit. Very talented craftsmen and women, they have been through so much in life and yet they always have a smile on their faces…

Fresh fruits and vegetables. A simple homely slow paced life here…

Taife Leo newspaper… Lugha yetu (our language), gazeti letu (our newspaper). In school, during Kiswahili lessons, our teacher would insist on us reading this paper and as difficult as it was because they use the very proper swahili, not like the slang we speak on the streets, it really did help…

Al-Samadeen Butchery – “nyamachomaland” !

Mtwapa Bridge

To the left of the Mtwapa bridge….it was a gorgeous day and look at the colour of the Indian ocean….simply beautiful. We have a big “boating colony” in Mombasa. Many like deep sea fishing.

To the right of the bridge

Mtwapa area – this is now outside the Mombasa Island…part of mainland Kenya

Small mosque in Mtwapa…..yay !

Club Lambada – very colourful. The word Lambada takes me back to the 1990s when the song came out and the whole world had lambada fever. The name Kaoma was on everybody’s lips…

Pirates… nightclub at public beach. On Sundays and public holidays especially, a huge part of the Mombasa population flocks here to the beach. Look there are costumes for hire ! 

Pirates is quite a nice club, all sorts go there. Its one of the integral parts of the dating scene !! The few times I’ve gone (not to date ! but to enjoy the music), they’ve played nice songs. They do a mix of western, taarab, local, latin, indian.

Public beach is now beautiful at night as they have the orange street lights up on a nice long stretch of the beach. Its now romantic and free and not dark and scary as before..