All Aboard! Lunatic Express to Mombasa

Three of us (Botes, Shawn, and I) boarded an overnight train at the Nairobi Railway Station and headed to Mombasa. We sat in second class and had four beds in our compartment. This overnight train was insane... lots of mzungus (gringos) with too much alcohol and hectic music. The train itself was super old school and quite rickety. While Botes was waiting for me to get to the station he met Rob. Rob is from Cyprus and just started 10 month treck around the world, Kenya was his second stop. The four of us hit it off and had a pretty good time on the train. There was a rowdy bunch next to us who ended up causing drama on the train. It was pretty hard to sleep due to the drunkards as well as the shifting of the train. We had dinner and breakfast on the train and arrived in Mombasa around 9:30am. We found a taxi driver, Osman, to take us to Diani beach. By 10:30am we had put our stuff at STILTS, a tree house we were going to stay at and were on the white sand beach swimming and soaking up some rays. We lunched at a restaurant/bar called forty thieves and then went out on a glass bottom boat to snorkel around a sand bar. We saw some pretty awesome coral, fish, eel, and starfish. Spent a few hours playing in the sand on the bar and then headed back for showers and dinner. We were all pretty beat after our day so we crashed early and woke up to see the sunrise and then spent the morning into the early afternoon enjoying the last bit of the weekend. A two day tropical vacation was just what the doctor ordered after a rough week at work.... weekends like this one are going to be my motivation to push through work weeks.... this country is just beautiful!  Check facebook for a new album dedicated to the Kenyan coast! If it doesn't make you want to come visit I don't know what else will! 

Safe travels and fun adventures to Rob! Hope we meet up again soon... maybe in Cyprus?