We arrived this afternoon after a night in Dubai, where it was over 100 degrees with 50 % humidity... it is a large, bustling city with a crazy amount of wealth (built their own islands off of the coast), but we stayed in the older part of town, where it had more remenants of its fishing village days...
And here we are in Africa! It is beautiful here and I immediately fell in love with it- very lush- many palm trees and colorful flowers, not to mention the many fruits and vegetables for sale on the streets. The people have been helpful and friendly and I love listening to them speak- Kiswahili is a very round, full sounding language. We have spent our short time here so far dodging traffic and bicyclists with their wares piled high and wandering many of the streets searching for an ATM that would take our cards (vs immediately spitting them out with "Sorry!"). Fortunately, we were just successful in our mission. We are looking forward to getting to explore more tomorrow around the Old Town and the market place. And now to bed for our first night in three days of real sleep!
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