KILIFI: KENYA’S BEST HIDDEN VIBES
One can find beaches to be overrun, the hotels overbooked and all the good watering holes laden heavy with Nairobi escapees. In order to avoid such awkward problems as running into the same co-worker you’ve been avoiding, there is only one true option within the Kenyan Coast: Kilifi town. To get there you’ll have to go north from Mombasa, but it is a bit of a mission, especially, if you’re going by bus. After transfers and negotiations just north of Mombasa in the pleasure-seekers town of Mtwapa (famous for gambling, prostitution and other assorted vices), you’ll find yourself rolling over tarmac covered in waves of heat on the way towards Kilifi. You can’t really miss the town, after fields of sisal that sprawl out endless for at least 20 kilometers across a singular massive plantation, you’ll cross a bridge into the very heart of Kilifi town.
It doesn’t much register as being a ‘destination’ and that’s kind of
