On our last morning in Saint-Louis, Sam and I ventured out to the peninsula, an area much less frequented by tourists. There is a fishing beach on the outer shore, and with its abundance of colorful fishing boats (pirogues), it looks a lot like the Yoff fishing beach. Shortly after stepping on to the beach, a local man greeted us and asked us what we were doing in Senegal. Sam and I had already been asked several times if we were with the Peace Corps, a group of people of [...]

We arrived in Lamu last Saturday afternoon, after a night bus to Mombasa and then a very not fun ride from Mombasa to Lamu. We took a boat to the island and found a place to stay for the next two nights. We stayed at a place called Yumbe House in Lamu town, which is an old coral castle! It was a great place, and we had a couple rooms on the top floor so we had an amazing view of the city! Great architecture in the city and around too. [...]

It was a weekend on the water! On Saturday Liana and I went to Wasini Island (south coast of Kenya) to do some snorkeling. We took a dhow boat out onto the ocean to Kisite National Marine Park. Before we jumped in to start or snorkeling, we of course had to see some dolphins! There were about 5 of them that we saw. Unfortunately they weren’t jumping or anything, but they were swimming between the dhows. We did two sets of snorkeling. I’ve never been snorkeling before so it was kind [...]