Downtime in Mombasa....
Downtime
in Mombasa....
Cinema
x , City Mall and Tsavo East so many places to visit......
After
a very enjoyable, but hard and challenging week in the classroom, the
weekends just as a they are back home, are welcomed by all the
volunteers.
Thankfully
Mombasa and the surrounding areas offer a number of activities to do
and places to go and see during periods of down time. I’m still
amazed by the standards of the shops and facilities only a five
minute bike ride (10 minutes tuk tuk )away from the GVI base , which
is conveniently situated between City Mall and Cinema x Complex. Also we have local cafe and bars within walking distance .
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| Fellow volunteers getting lunch in local village cafe. |
City
Mall offers a number of shops, cafés and restaurants and is one of
my favourite places to go and treat myself to a yummy smoothie, while
taking advantage of the free WI FI at one of the cafés.
Cinema
x also has a number of shops and cafés, but is best known for its
cinema, where I watchedy favourite ever 3D film “Life of Pi”
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| Off on Safari with fellow volunteers |
My Favourite weekend so far as been the safari trip to Tsavo East, following recommendations from long term volunteers I booked a weekend trip along with three fellow volunteers. We were picked up early on the Saturday morning from the GVI base, and we then took 2 hours to reach the parks. Within minutes of entering the park I saw a group of elephants walking about 20 yards away from are van, this was my first ever experience of seeing animals in the wild and it was a very surreal one at that.
Within 30 minutes we came across two loins
eating a buffalo. So within such a short time I had already seen two
of the big 5...
The
lodges we stayed in were amazing and had great views of a waterhole.
The following day we did two more game drives and I added many more
animals to my list .
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| The Lodge was amazing..... |
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| Volunteer Carla at the beach ..... |
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