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Oct 11, 2007 Thu

Location: Diani Beach, Mombasa Kenya Africa
Morning
07:16Breakfast
08:30Bus to Mombasa
10:03funeral posession
11:35City tour
11:51Haller park
extract materials for cement
11:56haller park
Afternoon
12:04big palm tree
pre: vervet monkey
12:09giant tortoise
they cut grassnor native in Kenya
can lives us to 320 years
Haller was a guy from Swizerland
will mown the grass
12:10turtle tick
12:11giant turtle tick
12:14turtle head
12:15giant nile crocodiles
garbage bin
they serve crocodil in restuant
Can't find Nile crocodiles in Nile anymore they are fed twice every month
they can feed once every six months
most time they don't use much energy
tortoise hibernate
crocs don't hibernate in this weather
12:23vervet blue is for attracting females
can produce baby every 3 months
12:26giant clams
this place was beneath ocean million years ago
12:28tilapia fish farm
12:29fish farm
12:30egret
12:31tilapia fish
12:34dead millipedes
12:35nile monitor
eat snakes
12:38eland antelope
biggest in Kenya
12:40mini
12:43 gecko
12:45baubav tree
moneky bread food
can live up to 1000 years
planted by Kenyatta (first Kenyan president)
12:48nile lizard
snake eater
12:49rare monitor lizard
12:52little green snakepre: sand bao
12:53leopard turtle
12:54nile monitor lizard
12:56baby crocodile
12:56baby crocodiles
12:57albano crcodiles
12:58albano crocodile
13:13Lunch at Haller Park
they serve crocodiles, ostrich quail, gunia, kebabs, baobab kuku, tilapia fillet as well as swahili vegeterian platter
14:46Fort jesus
14:47fort jesus
they raised the entrance from 200 to 4000 ksh
15:05passage of the arghes
15:07original canon
15:07captain quarter
15:08town
proggy hereat 15th century
chinese 9
15:09proggy canon
proggy built shorter than british built taller
15:11sentry
to check if ship is allowed
pillars for progese navigation
north coast of mombasa
rich people live there
Italian maffia owned some hotel there before abt 8 years
15:15arrow
15:18zanzibar door
15:19carbon
work of some unknown soldiers or sailors
15:20museum
15:22map of fort
human and legsand african
15:24trade route
15:33coral anchor
15:34destroyed chapel
british tried to evade the arabs
15:36cistern
15:39portty toilet in open
15:41portty solider remains
a replica
buried from 16 century
arabs buried straight and head face north
15:42omani house
15:50mombasa
mobasa means I don't understand
wombasai corruped form
original name was veta which means war
15:54anchor from arab dhow boat
15:56international artist sign
15:59water shipping
Night
18:00hotel darajani
18:00dinner at Darajani
21:00Hotel darajani
 
  
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