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| Flying over the savannah of eastern Kenya between Nairobi and Mombasa |
After waking up in Nairobi, I headed to the smaller of the
two Nairobi airports, Wilson airport.
This airport serves domestic flights around Kenya and private planes,
mostly. It was a rather interesting
experience as it doesn’t have one central terminal. Each airline has their own
building with their offices and their own little check-in counter and waiting
room. So, once you find the building of
the airline you’re flying with somewhere along a long road of one after the
other, you check in your luggage, get your boarding pass, and THEN they bus you
back down to the one boarding gate, somewhere back by the entrance. I was really glad that I had paid a little
extra for the lady who runs the guesthouse where I stayed (who was really nice)
to drive me down there, as she asked directions from the workers and got me to
the right building.
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| The city of Mombasa from above. Maybe someday I'll make it back for a closer look. |
I took a flight from Nairobi to Lamu, with a stop in Mombasa
(a major city on the coast) on the way.
In Mombasa we just stopped to pick up more people; I didn’t have to get
off the plane. It was rather like a
flying bus. It was a beautiful sunny day
and I had a window seat, so I enjoyed watching the coastline as we flew.
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| Juice boxes on the plane! |
Lamu has its own little airport on a nearly deserted island
just across the channel; it’s the kind of place that only has one plane at a
time, so you just get off the plane on the runway and walk yourself into the
building. Coming out the other side of
the airport building, I followed everyone else down the path to the pier, where
longboats were waiting to ferry us across to the town.
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| Flying up the Kenyan coast |
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| The marshy land along the coast near Lamu. |
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| Getting off the flying bus... |
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| Making my way into the airport... |
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