Saturday
14/10-2011
NB! This is a fictional
blog. I have not been to Kenya, and everything I write are based on facts I
have read. The pictures are also not mine, but borrowed from the internet.
(source under every picture) I also have a list of sources I have used at the
bottom of this entry.
Hello!
This is going to
be my last entry here from Kenya. My flight leaves tomorrow. I do NOT want to
go home! To distract myself from packing (once again) I decided that I would
write and update you about my last days here in Kenya. I am, as you may
remember, in Mombasa at the moment. Mombasa is Kenya`s second largest city with
a population of almost one million people.
These last few
days of my trip I have basically been around sightseeing and just relaxed on
the beach you can see in the picture above. The other picture is from something
called Moi avenue. There is not really much more to share from my stay here other
that it is a very beautiful place which I recommend travelers to visit. I
figured since this is my last day and the last words I am going to write from
Kenya I will write some history from Kenya and also a bit about Mombasa.
When the first Europeans
(Portuguese people) arrived in Kenya, Mombasa was one of the first cities they came
to. They controlled the coastline from Mombasa to another Kenyan city by the
coast, Malindi, but were not able to control the inner part of Kenya.
In 1895 the
whole country of Kenya became a British colony and belonged to something called
the British East Africa which roughly covers the area of Kenya today.
In 1952 there
was a protest against the British government. This was called the Mau Mau
uprising and lasted until 1956. This eventually ended in Kenya`s independence in
1963 even though the Mau Mau group (which was the Kenyan group) actually lost
the conflict.
Here are two maps
of Kenya so you can actually see where I have been. As you can see Kenya is a
country at the east coast of Africa. Kenya has a total population of around 40
million people if anybody wondered. At the maps above you can see where Nairobi
and Mombasa is located. For your information Masai Mara is located south-west
of Nairobi by the boarder of Tanzania.
I think I will
wrap the whole thing up with an explanation of the flag of Kenya.
This flag was
adopted at the same year that Kenya declared its independence in 1963. The
black colour symbolizes that the majority of the population is black. The green
colour symbolizes land. The small white stripes symbolizes freedom and the red
colour symbolizes the blood lost in the struggle for it. The shield symbolizes defense
of all the other things the flag symbolizes.
This has been a
really inspiring trip! I really do not want to go home to cold Norway, but I
guess I have to. So long readers!
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