A 4day retreat to pearl beach, south of Mombasa

Since I will get a training in Nairobi next week, for my work, and since in Ethiopia they are celebrating the Ethiopian New Year on 11th and 12 september, and since the weather in Addis Abeba is still cold and wet, we decided to go to Mombasa for 4 days. Robert will fly back to Ethiopia on Sunday afternoon and I will go to Nairobi from here. 

It is a treat to be here. As soon as we came out of Mombasa airport we were engulfed by warm and humid air; comparable to Hawaii, Liberia, Goa, all those places of which we have such good memories. 




We are staying in a beautiful and somewhat touristic  resort, which is more or less deserted, it being low season now and people being afraid of Ebola and Al Shebab. 

So we have the beach to ourselves- together with the various traders that sell lappa's, keyhangers, and traditional things. 








Like this beautiful man, whom I paid to get his photo taken. The beach sand is as white as the white sands in New Mexico

So... we relax, we have time to read and actually I am making a summary of the sign and the Seal, the book about Ethiopia by Grham Hancock. because it is very interesting, but there is so much information and it is so complex, that when you have finished the book (about 500 pages) you need to start anew because you forgot about the connections and happenings in the beginning. 

 And of course Robert is watching birds!
Not unsuccesfully - this is the woolly-necked stork!