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Tiwi - info
Hi Guys
I'm looking at an organised tour to Kenya, safari and beach etc. The last 10 days are spent at "Tiwi Beach Resort on the shores of the Indian Ocean, 35km south of Mombasa". I've done a search but can't find any posts on it.
Be grateful if anyone knows it. And whether it's possible to get ST fun in that area (am an africa newbie). Also how easy it would be to get myself to Mombassa to try the flesh pots there?
Thanks for the help. Hope I can post a good report on my return!
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[QUOTE=DDW]Hi Guys
I'm looking at an organised tour to Kenya, safari and beach etc. The last 10 days are spent at "Tiwi Beach Resort on the shores of the Indian Ocean, 35km south of Mombasa". I've done a search but can't find any posts on it.
Be grateful if anyone knows it. And whether it's possible to get ST fun in that area (am an africa newbie). Also how easy it would be to get myself to Mombassa to try the flesh pots there?
Thanks for the help. Hope I can post a good report on my return![/QUOTE]I don't know the "Tiwi Beach Resort" ( maybe newly built ? ) but have stayed repeatedly at the "Tiwi Beach Cottages" , last time in '98 but visited again 2 yrs ago to have dinner with a friend who was staying there : these are self-contained cottages , sparsely but adequately furnished , in an idyllic and secluded setting right on a little cove on the beach . The place is an ideal hideout for lovers , but utterly unsuitable if you are single and looking for "action" . It's about a 1/2 km walk on a bush track to the Mombasa-Diani road , i.e. not advisable for a foreigner at night ( safe during daytime though ) . You're better off staying at one of the Diani beach hotels, if its got to be the South Coast .
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Barri
Barri,
Apologies for late reply. Christmas et al. It was Indiana Beach Hotel. Google it, its there, and they take reservations by email. I paid sixty dollars a night. Negotiated down from 70, but of course depends on season. Go for a massage next to the hotel at the entrance next to Yul's. Bamburi beach market.
KLA.
[QUOTE=Barri]Hi Kampala, which hotel in Mombasa would that be? What did you pay? I'm going there for New Year and haven't booked anything yet.
I posted this in the Nairobi forum a while ago (because the original post was there), which maybe was a mistake, cause I realize now you've missed it. Tried to PM you but couldn't get through... I really would appreciate the hotel information.
Cheers,
Barri[/QUOTE]
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Its true
The Lady is not bad. Only drunken all time, and to long in Africa ;-)
I have not a prob with the money, stay 2 times last year in Fontana.
TT
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currently situation ?
Good evening gentlemen
I booked in march bamburi beach; how is the situation between nakumatt
and indiana beach ? Security ? Banks/Atm and shops closed ?
Any information welcome; condor still confirmed the flight
Thx
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At Fontana beware of standing out front at night. Jungle men come from over the wall across the main road and attack w/ machetes. Several people got attacked recently waiting for matatus at dusk. I heard one of them screaming in fear and pain. That's a bad spot. I hear the police shot a couple of them but the group comes back anyway.
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[QUOTE=Steve German]Good evening gentlemen
I booked in march bamburi beach; how is the situation between nakumatt
and indiana beach ? Security ? Banks/Atm and shops closed ?
Any information welcome; condor still confirmed the flight
Thx[/QUOTE]Spoke to a friend yesterday who lives near Nakumatt Nyali ( I am overseas until later this month ) : the situation is tense, but peaceful, with police and GSU maintaining high visibility.
March is a long way off and I am sure things will be back to normal long before.
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[QUOTE=Jobair]At Fontana beware of standing out front at night. Jungle men come from over the wall across the main road and attack w/ machetes. Several people got attacked recently waiting for matatus at dusk. I heard one of them screaming in fear and pain. That's a bad spot. I hear the police shot a couple of them but the group comes back anyway.[/QUOTE]While one should always be concerned about one's personal safety, especially after nightfall walking on a road without street lights, one should be equally careful about believing all sorts of hearsay horror stories; the more people pass them on, the wilder they get.
That particular stretch of the Malindi Hwy seems to be always busy with pedestrians and people waiting for matatus, I. E. I doubt any half-smart street robber would choose such a busy location to ply his trade.
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Fortunately you're here Lusty to protect us all from deciding for ourselves how to make use of information.
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[QUOTE=Jobair]Fortunately you're here Lusty to protect us all from deciding for ourselves how to make use of information.[/QUOTE]Jobair, your attempt at sarcasm seems misplaced.
Please realize that "information" can be classified as either
a) good and therefore useful
or
b) bad and therefore useless.
Hearsay usually falls into the latter category - it's as simple as that.
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Sounds like you're saying that my being there and witnessing the aftermath of an attack in the hotel (hearing the people screaming/ leaving my hotel room for the front entrance to investigate / seeing the woman crying, trembling in fact / her cut man bleeding right in the hotel parking lot / my taxi driver actually taking the poor guy to the hospital) and speaking directly with the female victim and other bystanders of the whole attack is not sufficient to bear witness for this forum. Perhaps I needed to have had an arm hacked off personally with a photo of that stub and stamped passport as well posted to be considered credible?
All sarcasm aside, what's simple Lusty is that no one needs you to tell them what hearsay is, what is good info and what is bad info. No one needs you to tell them how to read or think. You should give up that posture of authority, and when it comes back just be quiet instead.
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[QUOTE=Jobair]Sounds like you're saying that my being there and witnessing the aftermath of an attack in the hotel (hearing the people screaming/ leaving my hotel room for the front entrance to investigate / seeing the woman crying, trembling in fact / her cut man bleeding right in the hotel parking lot / my taxi driver actually taking the poor guy to the hospital) and speaking directly with the female victim and other bystanders of the whole attack is not sufficient to bear witness for this forum. Perhaps I needed to have had an arm hacked off personally with a photo of that stub and stamped passport as well posted to be considered credible?
All sarcasm aside, what's simple Lusty is that no one needs you to tell them what hearsay is, what is good info and what is bad info. No one needs you to tell them how to read or think. You should give up that posture of authority, and when it comes back just be quiet instead.[/QUOTE]With all due respect, Jobair, your original post sounded like hearsay whereas the above details obviously are of a different quality.
I apologize if I come across like I am trying to nanny anybody. No intention whatsoever.
My concern simply is that this should be a place with actionable info for ho'mongers and not a forum for rumor mongerers and scare mongerers.
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Very brief report on Mombasa. Visited Xmas 07.
Casablanca is a little bit more upmarket from when I was there before. Less dodgy / hassly birds, more classier birds. Music is way more with it also.
But there is definitely more YOUNGER birds, so be careful who you pick. There were a few 15 year olds in there and a lot of 17y olds. Even in broad daylight; during the day.
I was asking a lot of the girls their age and some even admitted they were 17.
They were all dolled up and had sexy dresses on etc but do yourselves a favour and have a good look at the chicks you will be taking back.
Apparently there is no age of consent in Kenya but I think a very sensible golden rule is to only fuck 18y+ if you are a muzungo in Africa.
Prices: I was amazed at how cheap I was getting some of these chicks. I got fairly hot looking chicks for 600-800KSh short time. This is only in Casablanca. In Tembo a long time is more like 1500. (Im 37, average looks, slightly overweight)
Tembo was a big disappointment over the festive season as they charged chicks for admission fee on all the usual ladies nights where its usually free so there was nowhere near as many chicks on those nights.
In summary, I would avoid Kenya over the festive season. A lot of prices go up by up to 50%. I had more fun and my money went much further in low season.
Still had a great time though.
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age of consent
[QUOTE=Jim01]
Apparently there is no age of consent in Kenya but I think a very sensible golden rule is to only fuck 18y+ if you are a muzungo in Africa.
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Totally agreed, Jim01! However, the age it is not alway easy to verify and all of us know that not every cuty tells us the truth about it! Many girls don't have proper documents and sometimes even these papers are faked! So, in case of any doubt it might be wise 'better to say no'!
IMHO and according to my experience in Africa and Asia.
Cheers - Hesekiels
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"Stop. We cut you"
I can only stress what Jobair says about [quote]At Fontana beware of standing out front at night[/quote]
This was at 7 pm, not even dark yet and I had seen my daytime girl friend off at the matatu stop just 10 m. to the right of the Fontana entrance. As I turned to go back to the hotel there suddenly was two men in front of me, both of them with pangas. One grabbed my left wrist and they shouted "Stop, we cut you" and then both of them hit me on my shoulders with the flat side of the pangas. I remember I started to reach for my wallet, but then some other part of my brain reacted: I jerked my hand free and run like a rabbit in the opposite direction, turned right towards the beach and found my way back to the hotel. Ordered a double whisky while I caught my breath.
The masai "security" at the gate later confirmed that it happens quite often that people are jumped at just after a matatu has left.
Now for some hearsay (sorry LustyHombre): When I told this story to a girl at Cheers she said she and her muzungu catch of the night had been mugged walking from the road down to Kahama hotel. The guy wanted to save money by taking a matatu, but that cost him dearly: The muggers took his waist bag with everything, and when he asked them to give back his passport and credit cards they started cutting him. He got deep wounds in the back and spent several days in the hospital. (The girl lost her money and her mobile, and she she said was still visting the guy occasionaly in the hospital).
Lesson learned: Don't [b]ever[/b] walk or stand on the road in dark. Always take a taxi.
I stayed the X-mas week in Bamburi beach and I learned more lessons, but more on that later.