DAY15:22/08/10 ( Goodbye Amboseli Park )

Sunrise Africa: Mombasa.

Since we had done an all day game drive the previous day, we had no other option than to zoom off immediately for Nairobi so as to catch the 13:00 bus to Mombasa..unavoidable to go back to Nairobi to catch a public transport rather than pay the obscene price that private transport would have cost us.

The journey from Amboseli back to Nairobi seemed senseless if you consider that at Amboseli we were closer to Mombasa but the reality on ground due to available infrastructures made it

Mombasa:

Oxygen Bus to Mombasa.

We were met by Maricus who had just come from Mombasa where had some business. He came with the video projector that I had given him for safe keeping but I told him that we still need him to store it and most of the other stuff we left with him.

The bus ride to Mombasa was an 8hr tiresome stretch which was made easier by the interior comfort.
The bus driver drove like a bat out of hell on a truck infested single lane stretch of road. Raquel who sat in "1st", First class Seat said that at one time he controlled the steering wheel with his tommy and at other times with his elbow, while he talked on his cell phone. A clear recipe for disaster but God was on our side all the way-I blessed God who did not let me see any of these.

Sheila, from  our tour operator had booked "first class" seats for all of us@1400ksh each, and for me she had booked an executive seat but Joan would hear none of that so I had to give up my 1600ksh seat for Caesar whom I eyed all the way as he enjoyed the extra large (former airplane business class) seat all the way to Mombasa. Poor me :(

We reached Mombasa@21:00 and we had the bus taxi waiting for us Nasir who arranged for the bus was there also and he made sure that we were safely delivered to the hotel. (Kahama Beach hotel Bombari)

@home in Bamburi Kahama apartment.

We found our accomodation to be excellent for the price at which we got it, especially when we checked out other nearby hotels and realised that we had better rooms for 1/3 of what the others cost.

We retired to our beautiful apartment for the night after over 13 hours on the road.