My Travel Adventures

While trying to check-in online for my flight on Jambojet (an endeavour in which I believe no one has ever succeeded), I found out that my seven o’clock evening flight to Nairobi had been pushed back to half past eleven. I was quite put out by this, but it did allow us to spend the day in a much more leisurely way. We left the apartment at around ten, taking a tuktuk to the city centre only to learn that most of its establishments were closed as it was a Sunday. Still, we found one café that was open and sat down for some drinks before continuing to Fort Jesus.

I made my day trip to Tsavo East during a weekend visit to Mombasa. I went together with my friend Bonnie who, after visiting me in Nairobi, spent a few days in Zanzibar and flew into Mombasa just a few hours before I made it into the city on the SGR train. The ride was a long one: Usually it takes about five and a half hours to get from Nairobi to Mombasa, but due to an unexplained delay in Voi, my ride took closer to six. My journey was also lengthened on both ends by various unconnected events. Firstly, it takes some forty or fifty minutes to get from northern Nairobi to the SGR terminus, which is jut beside the airport. Secondly, travellers are asked to arrive one hour early because they need to walk through several security scans and have their luggage inspected by sniffer dogs, after which they must either have their tickets printed at one of the staffed counters or by a machine.