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has added a new journalJamal and I will be in Kenya for a couple of weeks from Monday. Our first week will be spent on safari so that's sorted and the second week will be on a beach resort on Nyali Beach, Mombasa.
Anyone have any tips of what we can do whilst we are in Mombasa??
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has added a new journalHere are some signs that you won't find anywhere else
in the world except in AFRICA ...
In a restaurant in Zambia:
"Open seven days a week and weekends."
On the grounds of a private school in South Africa:
"No trespassing without permission."
On a window of a Nigerian shop:
"Why go elsewhere to be cheated when you can
come here?."
On a poster in Ghana:
"Are you an adult who cannot read? If so, we
can help."
In a hotel in Mozambique:
"Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9.00 am and 11.00am daily."
On a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo:
"Take note: When this sign is submerged, the
river is impassable."
In a Zimbabwean restaurant:
"Customers who find our waitresses rude ought
to see the manager."
A sign seen on a hand dryer in a Lesotho public
toilet:
"Risk of electric shock-Do not activate with
wet hands."
In a Botswana jewellery shop:
"Ears pierced while you wait."
On one of the buildings of a Sierra Leone
hospital:
"Mental Health Prevention Centre."
In a maternity ward of a clinic in Tanzania:
"No children allowed!"
In a cemetery in Uganda:
"Persons are prohibited from picking flowers
from any but their own graves.
In a Malawi hotel:
"It is forbidden to steal towels please. If you
are not a person to do such a thing, please don't read
this notice."
A sign posted in an Algerian tourist camping
park:
"It is strictly forbidden on our camping site
that people of different sex, for instance a man and woman,
live together in one tent unless they are married to each
other for that purpose."
In a Namibian nightclub:
"Ladies are not allowed to have children in the
bar."
And the prize goes to...
On the walls of a 'butchery' (a shack with a bloodshot, sweaty, short Kikuyu with an axe) in Kawangware, SW of Nairobi, Kenya.
"We sell all meats...goat meat, sheep meat,
fish meat,chicken meat, beef meat..."
moh2005
first one here :-) --- I'll have some of the beef meat please! :-D hehe
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has added a new journalwhere is everyone?? This village is dead!! we need to do something to revive it!! ok ok so how is everyone doing? did you guys hear of the earthquake today which was also was felt in kenya today?
news.yahoo.com
hope everyone's loved ones are ok!
also, i found this site which sells Kenyan goods online, it's pretty cool! some prices are a bit steep but nonetheless, it's always good to know there's a place to order stuff from if the need ever arises! :)
www.biashara.biz
they sell mabuyu!! woohoo, but the cost for a 200g packet is about 4.75 (U.S dollars!!) Also, they have house of manji biscuits (anyone remember those??) sooo many memories are flooding back! :)
marashi
I didn't hear about the earthquake, I hope everyone is alright,moh2005
hehe yeah... stupid shipping costs. anyways, you could buy more stuff, then the shipping doesn't look a lot
Ephemeral_Bliss
lol well moh you're forgetting shipping costs! :p yeah iA i should be there this weekend.
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has added a new journala BIG jambo to all the kenyan freaks out there!! niaje besteys! isn't kenya the coolest place on earth? only a kenyan will understand the sound of the fizzing of a cold coke bottle, or the sizzling of nyam chom, or the smile of those mama mbogas who weather beaten and heavy loaded still afford the most dazzling smiles in the world... or the beauty in the harshest of conditions.. From the land of kitu kidogo to the entire cosmic space and back if u r truely kenyan... say HARAMBEE!!
Tabasamu milele jammas! ( na chilees!)
farax
hebu mnikaribishe jamaa.
KenyanTabassum
sema!! nai ni poa, as usual!Though has been raining mbwas na pakas!! but it's all cool.. Jambo my people!!thanks for replying to my very first journal, and and an ultra super jambo to u Moh, BIGGER than the KICC( btw Times TOWER is the tallestbuilding siku hizi! Xnilu salaamu mob for u too!!
moh2005
What? No salaams for me? sawa! Be like that! :( :'(
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has added a new journal:D
I'm just feeling excited because it's Friday.
Oh yeah- I just wanted to ask you all something.
Need anything from Kenya?
Crazy question, maybe, but for a fellow Kenyan I'd do almost anything!
Insha'Allah soon I'll be going to visit my Mom Dad and family in Kenya... I do this every year... if anyone needs anything, do tell me. Mabuyu, Simsim, kashata, sukari-nguru, sunflower, local music CDs, achari... tell me!
And the town I live in- Kisii- it's the home of soapstone, so I get them unbelievably chEap!!
Honestly, I'm not "just saying" this... if anyone wants anything, please tell me, ok? If I can, I'll bring it and send it to you insha'Allah.
Thanks, have a nice day!!
:)