Don’t rush, don’t have sparks, don’t be someone else, just be yourself. This article is from the WeChat public account: A fireworks (ID: yiluyanhuobiu) Author: A fireworks, head Picture from the author
In 2015, my work was not going well and my life was lifeless. I booked a flight to Sanya on impulse. It was the first time I saw the sea in Tianya Haijiao. I was so excited that I lay on the beach for a few hours and then the skin fell off my shoulder.
In 2018, I went to Mombasa for the first time and saw the sea in Diani. The beauty was beyond my imagination. The sand is fine, and walking barefoot is especially nice. I thought about it at that time, and I will come once a year in the future.
In 2019, in the light of the company, I was invited to the wedding of a supplier’s daughter and came to Bamburi Beach.
In 2020, I went to San Island with my friends. Unlike the deep blue of the Diani Sea, San Island’s water is turquoise, but it is also beautiful. (Travel｜My life in Kenya｜This Spring Festival, I will celebrate the New Year in San Island< span class="text-remarks">)
In 2021, this time I went to Diani again with my roommate, and I went to Wasini by the way. There were not many expectations or surprises, but the sea breeze on the beach was still very pleasant. At Christmas last year, Watamu was the one I wanted to visit the most. Because of changes in the hotel booking process, the plan was cancelled. When the Spring Festival came, my roommate had just been to Watamu, so I changed my plan to Diani.
You don’t need too much luggage. After all, there is only a three-day holiday. From February 12th to 14th, you can go out on the short skirt and long skirt belt at the bottom of the box. When booking air tickets and hotels, since you go to the beach, you must stay in a hotel by the beach and have a sea-view room. My roommate is very talkative, let me choose according to my preferences.
Get the ticket:
Book the hotel and the official map of the resort, it looks pretty good.
Day 1: Nairobi-Mombasa-Diani
Because it’s a ten-thirty flight, so you don’t need to get up early, sleep until 8:30, get up, wash, and leave at 9 o’clock. There is no traffic jam on the road, it’s half an hour. airport. After the security check, the waiting time was a little boring. My roommate went to buy Mandazi(my favorite among the local pasta foods) to satisfy your hunger< span class="text-remarks" label="Remark">(Why didn’t I buy it, because I’m lazy), after 10:20, the broadcast notified the flight to be delayed by one hour, so I sat down and waited .
I finally got on the plane at 1:30. My seat is in the middle, and my roommate’s seat is by the window. The seat on the left has been empty. I thought it was empty. I closed my eyes and squinted for a while, until the pungent body odor opened my eyes, only to find a local man sitting on the left side. This gentleman was very interesting. First, he took a photo with a click, and then made N phone calls until the stewardess came to remind him to turn off his mobile phone. I was almost suffocated in the foul air, so I could only quickly hypnotize myself to fall asleep.
Fortunately, during the ascent during takeoff, I could fall asleep every time, and this time was no exception. I didn’t wake up until I got to Mombasa. Everyone started to get off the plane. The gentleman sitting on the side of the corridor has not left, and we can only wait. He started another snapping and making phone calls, until everyone got off the plane, we reminded him, and he got up and got out of his seat. My roommate told me secretly that along the way, the gentleman stretched his arms so long, he hit the window and patted it N times. Every time he stretched his arms, a more suffocating smell emanated from the armpits, and then filled us. around.
This is a scented journey.
There was a delay in filling out the form at the airport, and it was past 12 o’clock when I came out. At the exit, there were many taxi drivers soliciting customers. We called for a taxi on Uber, and soon a pink car came.
On the way, pass a section of road without bridges(the place marked in the picture), so cars and people must first get on the big steamer (I don’t know the exact name What?), ferry to the opposite side via a large steamer. Although this is not the first time I have crossed this road, I am still too excited.
A large cargo ship is coming, waiting for it to pass first. The large container that I usually see on the construction site is like a small match box here.
In another car, there was a child. Maybe because our skin color was different, he kept staring at us curiously. I also looked at him. Maybe he was embarrassed, so he laughed first. (With his mother’s permission, I took a picture of him.) The child’s eyes are so clear, I can still see me and Silhouette of roommates.
The big ship is approaching the other shore.
At two o’clock in the afternoon, arrive at the hotel. The service staff is very good, let us drink iced coconut to rest for a while before checking in.
After completing the formalities, I sent a map of the hotel, but visually, we should be incomplete.
Interior view of the hotel room:
Outside the balcony is the sea.
It’s still early for dinner and we are not hungry either.Just go to the beach and be paralyzed for a while. The frangipani outside the room bloomed.
Breeze back at the beach. It was already evening, and the lights were on.
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It may be the reason for the Spring Festival, the Chinese holiday, the hotel has another big family Chinese, five or six children, lively, Swahili speaks thiefly, it seems that he grew up here of. When two kids lined up behind me, they chatted solemnly:
Little boy: She is Japanese.
Little girl: Like Korea and Japan, can you speak “Hello” in Japanese?
Little boy: I don’t know how, should we ask her in English?
I don’t know the children’s criteria for judging the country, so I turned around and greeted them. They suddenly jumped away: She is Chinese, and she understands what we just said.
After dinner and going back to the hotel, the little girl came over and asked if we wanted to go to the beach to catch crabs. My roommate and I didn’t want to go, so we planned to go back to rest first. But when passing by the beach, the two of them came up on a whim and said tacitly: Let’s go to the beach to see crabs.
Originally at nightThe beach is full of crabs. There are so many crabs. (You can also see it in the pasted picture) I borrowed a flashlight from the patrolling security guard, and there are more than N places where the light hits Crabs. Of course, none of them were caught.
White is a crab running madly
Day 2: Diani Beach—Wasini Island—Diani Beach
Wasini is the place where dolphins appear most frequently. Today’s itinerary is with five other colleagues. The hotel they live in is not far from us, a ten-minute drive away. Had a simple breakfast in the morning and waited for them to pick us up.
Riding in a small broken car, swaying all the way. On the road, when the police were inspecting, the driver stuffed him several hundred shillings, and the police gave him the “tolls” and let him go.
Arrive at Shimoni, buy a ticket, board the boat, and head to Wasini. The only two boat trips told me: I’m the one who will inevitably get seasick, So this time I was mentally prepared for seasickness, but what I didn’t expect was that this day’s exposure was the most terrible.
For these few seconds, we have been exposed to the sun for three hours. Then I went to an island reef out of the sea, where I could swim in the sea. (Because my roommate and I didn’t know there was an arrangement to go to sea, we didn’t even bring swimsuits, so we continued to expose ourselves on the boat)
I finally waited until I returned and went to have lunch. On Shimoni Island, the boat could not get to the shore and had to go into the water and walk by itself. My hat was blown away by the sea breeze. I had already thought about it in a few seconds: no more . But when he turned around, a long bamboo pole of the captain picked it up. I have been with me for more than three years, and the summer hat I wear every time I go to the beach can still fight for another year.
Passing by the seaside village where Muslims live
Disembark for dinner
Very simple lunch: cakes, coconut rice, cassava, and a crab (the number of people is not enough). This itinerary is very tour group style.
On the way back, my colleague called us to eat hot pot at their place. How much do these people love to cook: When they left from Nairobi, they brought a pot, hot pot ingredients, and brought ten catties of beef rolls and ten catties. Lamb rolls…but so tired, my roommate and I just wanted to go back to the hotel to take a shower and sleep. So he rejected the suggestion to eat hot pot.
To the hotel, outside the balcony, a few children were somersaults, a broken tire used as a springboard, jumped up and bounced, and then turned somersaults in the air. Almost every child can succeed, every somersault, cheers will be heard. I watched it for dozens of minutes.
At 7:30, the restaurant opened. This roast beef is too delicious, the chef said to take a picture of him, otherwise he won’t eat it for me… OK, please satisfy him.
Supper, There are singing and acrobatics. My roommate and I wanted to drink, I ordered a glass of Mojito, and my roommate ordered a bottle of white wine.
Bar area-the white old man and the black girl are common sights.
Sip and chat in the bar area. There was an old couple dancing to the music at the restaurant next door. They were clumsy but very loving. I recorded a video and showed it to my roommate. The roommate asked them if they wanted it as a souvenir.
She went to ask, and after a while, the old man and the old lady came to join us with wine.
We two single dogs listened to them telling love stories for an hour, from meeting each other to knowing each other, from the first date to this vacation. The 75-year-old grandfather is funny and humorous. He has several self-owned hotels in San Island and Mombasa. When he was young, he must be particularly charming and golden.(This review is too vulgar). The old lady is also a very good person(I only found out later). She has her own company and has been engaged in children-related charities for many years. The Spaniard , Have worked and lived in many countries. They are now pensioning in Nairobi, with five servants and two dogs in the family. When the grandfather recalled their stories, she always smiled and looked at the grandfather with patience and said, unless the grandfather couldn’t remember, she added that she never grabbed a conversation.
I took this picture and showed them. Grandpa said seriously who is the handsome guy on the left and why he can talk to Verginia(the name of the old lady) Together? I thought he drank too much, and patiently told him that this was you. He looked at me very seriously: Is it really me? Am I so handsome? ——After speaking, he couldn’t help but laugh.
On the way back to the hotel, they kept holding hands like this
I hope that when I am old, there will be a lover by my side, so I can walk together holding hands. (It sounds extravagant, not even 30Some things, why do they have them when they are 70 years old……)
Day 3: Diani Beach-Mombasa Airport-Nairobi
There is no arrangement today, so I wake up naturally, eat breakfast and lunch, and walk along the beach.
When I met a local selling shells, I couldn’t help but entangled and bought a few. (The pile is 1,000 shillings in total) The top few pieces selected by my roommate are small, and I chose the bottom two large pieces.
My roommate bought two silly little monkeys carved from coconut shells.
by the seaLittle animals:
The monkey outside the balcony opened the glass door, sneaked in, took the sugar packet from the table, and left a pile of baba on the table.
After checking out, I left the luggage at the front desk. The plane at 6 o’clock in the afternoon didn’t need to rush to the airport too early, so we went to the beach and continued to be paralyzed.
While waiting for check-out procedures, take a photo of the little monkey and the coconut.
Uber was called at 4 o’clock. The driver was a very irritable young man. He overtook all kinds of cars along the way. My roommate and I were careful not to squint for a while.
While waiting at the airport, my roommate fed an ice cream.
It was cold on the plane. I was wearing a skirt with bare arms and legs, shivering with cold, and I couldn’t sleep. It did not get warmer even after getting off the plane, because it was still raining in Nairobi. It took a long time to wait for the driver to come over, and finally got into the car and was stopped by the police.
Although it is all right to give some money, it is very resistant. The police may think that the Chinese are blackmailers. After waiting for more than ten minutes, they didn’t see us offering to give the money. They were very angry. They yelled at our driver and waited for more than ten minutes. He was very upset. Let our car leave quickly.
I haven’t eaten Chinese food for three days. I think instant noodles are delicious in the world. The logistics colleague sent a copy of the ingredients to the security room, so that we don’t need to order takeaways when we get home. When I got home and took a hot bath, my roommate made hot and sour noodles and fried pork belly, which was too delicious.
The three-day trip is over.
Expenses
4.1 Hotel: 2792 RMB (two nights, including breakfast and dinner)
4.2 Air ticket: 751 RMB(1 person)
4.3 Taxi + going to sea + dinner + souvenir: 1313 RMB(two persons)
Per capita: 2803.5 RMB
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Just like “Qihua Shuo”, in the end, it must be “valued.” If you don’t write something about impressions, it’s easy to lose followers (Buddha official account owners keep fans online), and then forcefully “remarks”.
5.1 Live and travel with co-productions
The roommate, also my colleague, is precisely my superior. Ashamed, she, who is one year younger than me, was already a project manager two years ago. When I came to this company and was dispatched to Kenya, she was already a veteran employee, and she was also dispatched from home and abroad. As the only two girls on the project, we were roommates at that time. Go to work and get off work together, sneak out for a drink at noon, go shopping together on the weekend, I have seen each other cry the ugliest, the first rose I received in my life was given by her, we failed to be talkative girlfriends , But it has been keeping the friendship between gentlemen as pale as waterFriendship. Later, she was transferred to Egypt, and I continued to stick to Kenya. Until the beginning of the year she was transferred back and we became roommates again.
It may be that the time of acquaintance is long enough to be familiar and understand, so it is particularly in sync.
I always struggle with whether the hotel room can see the sea view, she said that she can do it, and there is no requirement for price and location. I don’t want to get together with other colleagues, she said that we will book the tickets separately. I was too lazy to think and talk, so she made a decision and waited for me to nod.
I don’t want to move. I won’t get up after lying in a chair for a long time. She will buy food and drink and deliver it to me. The light in my room was broken, so I was embarrassed to ask my colleague to help, but she called an electrician to come and fix it for me without saying a word.
Have I done anything small for her? Rarely, except for companionship.
I will accompany her to various projects on weekends, but my little abacus is that I can harvest vegetables on the construction site again. When she wants to go out to eat and lack a company, I will accompany her. If she wants to talk, I just listen. Anyway, I talk very little and I’m lazy, so I can nod and don’t speak. She wanted to go out to see the dolphins, but I just wanted to be paralyzed. I finally went to stay with her.
I calm down and think about it. In fact, all of my friends who work together are in the position of a decision maker and a leader. I always rely too much on people I trust, but I haven’t compromised. More often, I rely on you to understand me, so I can be myself.
Being my friend should not have a high sense of happiness, but it should be easy and not tired. After all, I am the kind of person who can express clearly what I want and what I don’t want.
(Not many photos taken, and cherish it)
5.2 The obsession to watch the sea
Every time I desire to travel, I just want a change.
When I don’t want to work, I want to travel. The fastest way to quickly drag yourself out of anxiety and irritability is to see the sea. Every summer of restlessness, watching the sea is the coolness of my heart. In the quiet outside the city, the seaside scenery is as strange as a postcard flying from space.
Although it is not always possible to catch up with the good weather to see the sea, sometimes the sunset is not magnificent enough. The sunrise hides in the thick clouds, and the sea is a deep blue. It is far from the imagined scenery. But I can still sit on the beach for a day, with only the sound of the sea breeze and waves. The minute and the second go by calmly. I don’t rush to finish the work. I don’t sigh and waste time. I just open a book and finish reading quietly. I closed my eyes and squinted for a while. In the endless deep blue space, thinking about nothing, no talking, no thinking, this is the moment that truly belongs to me.
There are always a variety of reasons and reasons to see the sea, and then get a variety of different comforts, and then go back to a less-perfect life, only to fight again, and life has new expectations. In this corner of the world, there is always something that can illuminate the exit for me.
(This picture has the sense of sight of Monkey King)
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