I left this morning from Diani to Mombasa along with two danish girls on their way back to Nairobi. On their advices I went to an hotel they recommended to me to spend the night in Mombasa…and oh boy, what a shithole !
I stay on the New People Lodge. I had a single room (300KSh) facing a busy street, so it is crystal clear that I won’t have much sleep tonight. It was so weird that I moved to a double room (400KSh) to at least have some electricity to waste some time watching a DivX and having a working fan.
I booked a bus ticket to Tanga at Fahmeed Coach for 400KSh (Intersection Kenyatta Av., Haile Selassie Rd, next to the Coastline office, buses that goe to Nairobi). It is supposed to be a luxury bus..29/30 people fit inside. I did not want to take the big bus (that looked like shit anyway and that is the same price) to try to save some time at the border (immigration processing). I leave by 9:00AM tomorrow and should be in Tanga by 12:30PM. Finger crossed.
I avoided matatus as I wanted to arrive in one complete piece and did not feel like having my 2 bags on the roof all the way long.