I wonder what it was like for the fish who used to live here.....

I'm on the road again! Loads of stuff has happened since I last wrote but I will try and fill you in on the important things. Safe to say I'm having a blast.
Finishing placement with a bang me and a few friends decided to go for a bungee jump over the Nile the day we finished post departure training. I assumed that, though I would be scared out of my brains, a few deep breaths and I would be fine.....this was not the case. I got strapped up and then proceeded to spend two minutes on the edge shaking and crying proclaiming that there was no way on earth this was going to happen. Eventually the extremely nice man who was running the thing put his hand on my shoulder and and whispered in his soft New Zealand tones: "look love you've paid for it now and there's no refunds. 1, 2, 3..." and I jumped. Swan dived even. It was fantastic.

The bungee

The next day we headed to Kampala for a final night all together with the six of us. It was sad because we all have different travel plans but it was time to leave Uganda, most of us really felt ready to see some more of Africa.

We headed to Nairobi first, arriving after dark in the first big city any of us had seen for seven months (Kampala is pretty small by comparison). We were expecting to be a bit overwhelmed by the whole experience but every person we interacted with was very helpful and genuinely nice. We stayed at a hostel and campsite and spent the day exploring the city. For lunch we headed to the 'must do' restaurant in Nairobi called Carnivores. As the name suggests its a meat extravaganza! Waiters with skewers of full turkeys, sausages, legs of lamb, chicken, beef, pork, ostrich and ox come round and pile your plate high until you all literally surrender by laying down the flag that sits in the middle of your table. Very tacky but a completely original experience.

The cooking pit at Carnivores

After a four hour wait by the side of the road in Nairobi we boarded another bus for the coast and arrived at the backpackers hostel in Mombasa; a converted mansion house with hot water in the bathrooms and 'Tru Blood' on the TV in the living room; possibly my heaven.

Em and Chris waiting for the bus

Being on the coast was beautiful and we spent a lot of time wandering around the Moroccan-like old town and drinking Swahili coffee sat on the floor in little coffee shops. We also took the opportunity to find a little hole in the wall restaurant and have a wonderful Indian buffet

Me and Chris by the sea

The last few days we have been wandering around the beaches of Diani beach, a coastal area about 20k south of Mombasa, before gearing up for another big bus journey to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania tomorrow. Last night we had dinner in a restaurant called Ali Babar's which is completely inside a coral cave totally open to the stars. It was genuinely stunning, like something out of an Enid Blyton smuggler tale crossed with Disney Land. Reading the guest book towards the end of the meal we stumbled across a comment from a couple from Virginia USA: "I wonder what it was like for the fish who used to live here?". Says it all really.

All of us in the cave restaurant