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Maybe I Could Live There

MGMGIBBAS ·13 photographs ·10 Aug 2007 – 25 Aug 2007 ·16 days
Where
Watamu · watamu
When
10 Aug 2007 – 25 Aug 2007
16 days · trip of 2007
Who
luca MATTEI · @MGIBBAS · CAMPI BISENZIO
How
Travel diary
The story

Our experience began back in 2001, when we first touched Africa with our own hands in Shanzu, then in 2006 and 2007 in Watamu I met the most sincere and true friends of my life: Mario, Giorgio, Dasha at the Barracuda Inn. With them it was a blast, we did all the excursions with them: the mangroves, Sardinia 2, Robinson Crusoe Island, the devil's kitchen and Shell Island, the Gariseny river, the ruins of Gedi and the safaris to Tsavo and Amboseli. They are extraordinary people; on the Friday, which was the last day, they even organised my birthday complete with an Africa cake and all the children singing for me. It was moving and wonderful at the same time, something unforgettable. I advise you not to listen to what the beach boys say, that it's dangerous and that you're left to fend for yourself. It is NOT TRUE AT ALL, I assure you.

I (like many others) and my girlfriend Claudia have a wonderful relationship and every time we go to Kenya it gets harder and harder to leave, because Africa sickness really exists, says someone who used to be very sceptical. Anyway, it's just me, Luca from Florence; if you like I'll leave you the number of Mario, my dearest Kenyan friend, +254****8724, and you won't regret it.

The journey's photographs

13 photographs · click to open them full screen

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Three friends arm in arm on a rocky beach by the seaSmiling tourist in red shirt among children and lit candles in wooden houseTravelers with local friends in a crowded wooden room, flash lightingThree friends hugging and making peace signs on a white sand beachCouple standing at the edge of Marafa Canyon, eroded red earthFour women arm in arm on the beach, colorful headscarves, rippling sea behindWooden table with pink petals in a thatched-roof restaurant, a waiter in redTwo young men raising arms on the beach, boats and waves behindTourists on rocky cliff above crashing waves, intense sunlightTurquoise water between green rocky cliffs, white waves on the horizonMan on sailing dhow with painted sail in turquoise water near sandy beachTourists and locals under a thatched beach hut on white sandTwo men waving beside a painted wooden boat in turquoise water

1 reader comments

mariagiulia · 11/12/2007

sono in piena sintonia con te e anche io sono di firenze tornerò a watamu in febbraio per la sesta volta e sarò al blue bay chissà se ci incontreremo là con i tanti amici kenioti che io visito sulla spiaggia, infatti sono "mamma doctor"..ciao m.giulia

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