Off to Zanzibar tomorrow...

We are staying in Melindi for another night at the Ozi Guesthouse. We are hopping to dip our feet into the Indian Ocean for a swim as the sun continues to kiss my skin.

Melindi is a little coastal town north of Mombasa. I guess it's a popular spot for the Itallians to come visit and move to. In fact my white skin has lead alot of locals to believe that i am itallian and am welcomed by alot of "Ciaos".

Today, we got up early and went to visit "Hell's Kitchen". We hired a driver to take us out on the offroad exursion. All along the way we saw the most beautiful children waving with the biggest smiles greeting us with the words "ciao". I wish i could have gotten out and given them all a hug, but alas we would have never gotten to our destination.

Hell's Kitchen is a  little natural wonder that not many people go visit. If I were to discribe it I would say that it is a little cross between a Drumheller and the Grand Canyon. Our guide told us that his people have a tale that goes back a long time about the place.

Apparently the land where it is was once believed to be flat and lived on by a very rich family. The man had many wives, goats and cows. In fact they were so rich that they use to wash their clothing in the milk of the cows instead of giving and helping the people of the village. Then a long drought hit and the man still refused to help the village people. Then God was angry and he openned up the sky and let the rain fall on the area. The white of the sand formation is said to be the milk they bathed in while the red is the blood of all the people and animals that died in that place.

To this day at night it smells of something cooking which is why they call it hells kitchen. The people also don't go near it at night in fear of the devil.

The formations were beautiful.

On the way back we experienced our first road block by the police. Apparently our driver didn't have a proper photo on his liscense. He droped us off and was to return to the deal with the problem. I hope he's okay.

Tomorrow we are getting up early again to head on the flight into Tanzania. We got a cheap flight from Mombasa to the island of Zanzibar. I'll try to let you all know when I get there....