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Kenya

SASaSte ·69 photographs ·19 Feb 2010 – 26 Feb 2010 ·8 days
Where
Tsavo East, Malindi, Watamu
When
19 Feb 2010 – 26 Feb 2010
8 days · trip of 2010
Who
Sara Stefano · @SaSte · Roma
How
Travel diary
The story

Flight with Blue Panorama, Aquarius Beach Resort tourist village in Watamu. The resort is located right in the little town of Watamu. It's divided into three areas: the oldest one, with the reception, the bar and the restaurant with the pool; the new one, called Lil Palm, with the larger rooms and closer to the sea, where there's another pool with a hydromassage, a pool bar, the massage centre and a souvenir shop. Finally, the part closest to the sea is the Mapango area, with more luxurious rooms. Everything is connected by a bridge that in some stretches passes over the school and the orphanage and in others right over the village road. The restaurant included in the price is the buffet one in the "oldest" area; the one on the beach, on the other hand, is the Mapango, which is not included. The All Inclusive option is better described as a Soft all inclusive.

The pools and gardens are very well kept and there's a different show every evening. In Kenya there's the tide phenomenon, which at certain hours makes swimming impossible but lets you walk on the seabed that emerges to the surface; if you want to swim, there's the nearby Turtle Bay beach.

The journey's photographs

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Watamu Beach at high tideWatamu Beach at low tideVillageBuffet restaurantReceptionCarved wooden chairs around a plant pot on stone floor, hotel lobbyPool of the Lili PalmGreen-lit pool at night among palm trees and arched hotel balconiesStone-bottomed pool with thatched umbrellas, sun loungers and blooming bougainvilleaRoom balconiesMan in shorts descends stone steps among bougainvillea and palm treesPalm trees and tropical gardens among thatched-roof bungalows of a resortPool with wooden bridges among palms and loungers, ocean in the backgroundTurtle BayTourists and vendors on white sand, turquoise water, cloudy skyWoman carrying a child on her back walks on white sand past resting boysMasai VillageMaasai women and children in purple robes dancing under village treesMasai HousesMaasai children sitting on a wooden bench in front of the mud wallRaw material for building the houses!Tourist in hat beside a Maasai child in front of mud hutsLove IslandCoral rocks on white sand, boats and swimmers in Watamu's turquoise waterWhite boat moored in turquoise water, tourists wading on the shallow sandbankMan in mirrored sunglasses in turquoise water, green rocky cliffs behindSafari Tsavo EastThe African red earthGiraffe standing under a bare tree on grassy savannaThree giraffes and an elephant graze on the grassy Amboseli savannaA brown raptor perched on a bare branch of a dead tree, grey skyGerenuks standing on hind legs browse thorny branches among dry bushesGerenuk standing among dry bushes on red soilcheeky little monkeyTwo buffaloes wallowing in red mud, one looking toward the bankLong-tusked elephant covered in red dust walking through grassy savannaThree zebras grazing among dry grass and bushes in the savannahWaterhole surrounded by bush savanna, red rocks in the foregroundThree zebras on red soil among green bushes in evening lightOur lodge in the savannahterrace on the riverWooden fence in front of bushes and trees in the bushlandZebra walking on red dirt road among bushes, hazy lightOstrich standing among dry savanna bushes in bright daylightImpalas grazing among dry bushes in the savannaelephant carcassour guide Katanawaterfallsbig yawn.........Herd of buffalo among bushes on dry savanna under white cloudsHippopotamus wading through a muddy river among rocks and sandGiraffe facing the camera among palm trees and dry savannaGiraffe among green bushes on the savanna, clear skyHakuna Matata..Giant crocodile swims in brown mud between muddy banks under sunlightWoman crouching beside a crocodile on mud near the waterCrocodile on brown mud between muddy riverbank and turbid waterTourist leaning out of open safari van rooftop, driver nearbyWatamu at low tideview of the village beachwalk during low tideBanded sea snake swimming over sandy seabed in shallow clear waterwatamulow tide in malindifishermen in Malindimalindi towards the natural poolsnatural poolspoor starfish :(Tourists on the Fatti Vostri boat in turquoise water among other boats

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