Information about Fort Jesus.
Fort Jesus!
Me inside a watch tower.
After Fort Jesus, we toured through Old Town, which was right across the street from Fort Jesus. The area was very poor and old-fashioned. The living conditions were amazingly squalid, and it was hard to imagine that people live there their whole lives without experiencing the rest of the world. It really shows how lucky the rest of us are to live in the conditions we live in!
Part of Old Town Mombasa.
Apparently this is a gym in Kenya.
We also went through a bazaar and ate lunch there. It was a great place for inexpensive local souvenirs!
Part of the bazaar in Old Town.
The marketplace at the bazaar.
Mushroom pizza and passion fruit juice for lunch.
Having left Old Town, we took our taxi to Haller Park, Mombasa's largest animal sanctuary. We saw giant tortoises, antelope, and water buffalo, and we got to feed giraffes and monkeys! We also saw the feedings of crocodiles and hippos. It was a fascinating trip, almost a safari by itself! I have lots of pictures, but due to limited bandwidth here, only a couple will be posted below.
Feeding a giraffe!
Feeding a monkey!
Antelope (maybe?)
Hungry Hippo!
Crocodile feeding time!
When we got back to the housing complex around 5pm, we went swimming to wash off the sticky feeling from being sweaty and around animals for so long. Dollas prepared a rice and beef meatball dinner, which was terrific as usual. Some of the people working for the program were going to slaughter the rooster, so we may be having chicken for dinner tomorrow (also means no more 6am wake ups!). I started to do my laundry (which is entirely done by hand here), but two of the security guards came over and showed me how to wash the clothes and volunteered to finish it for me. Despite not getting a chance to play Uno, I decided to go to bed early to catch up on sleep.
Fort Jesus. Surprized Muslems did not change the name. The market looked interesting. Actually, the produce market looks great.
ReplyDeleteSo, in the shape of Jesus? Are we talking like his face, on the cross, in the manager, wearing a tuxedo t-shirt with big wings singin lead for Lynard Skynard?? Sounds interesting...
ReplyDeleteThese pictures are great man, especially the Hippo! You might have a natural talent there! And either that monkey really likes you, or his monkey partner is holdin out on the poor guy... I'm just sayin.
And I love that the security guards double as hand laundry washers!! Awesome! Great post!
It's kinda shaped like Jesus just hanging out:
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