Pwani is Kenya- Part 2/2 (Fort Jesus, Mombasa)

.....after jumping into the tuktuk, a few minutes later,... pap!! Fort Jesus!

This whole day I was zururaing like a mwenyeji n kumbe i'd never been to this side of the coastal town. One looking at me striding majestically, with all the confidence in the world, would be forgiven for thinking I've lived there all my life or probably even been there from the Vasco Da Gama era

By the way, about the years mentioned in history of this Vasco Da Gama dude n the whole FJ drama, sound so surreal.......u agree?; ati he landed at the coast in the year 14something.

Haiya!!!...that's not the dinosaur age? People back those days never used to go to Safari walk coz there was none, they used to go to Jurassic park to see themselves a T-Rex, n I kid you not. Go back those few hundred years and the beautiful peaceful sandy beaches, that we now sunbathe on or write those things for "...nani was here" as we stroll, were the subject of a few bloody confrontations between someone and someone....and DoooooN'T joke, we are talking Sinbad stuff here!!! Coast back then was the whole... ships, canons, three-headed flying-dragons stuff (yaani i can't imagine Sinbad with all those fake monsters was once my favorite show.)

Anyway, forgive me for my bad and very brief history lesson to you right there. Si kwa ubaya, I'm just one who prefers to live in the present as I ponder about the future hehehe. Anywho, this FJ place was built in the 1593 by the Portuguese.

This is the model of Fort Jesus. Looks like a person. I wonder if someone was trying to be funny with us. Ama......wait for it......wait for it............ it was built by aliens. Yep, I said it ALIENS!

Speaking of Aliens I wonder why, in movies, they only show up in western countries and especially in The States. Yaani, we are even being lengwad apparently by aliens whenever they come to 'take over the world'. Talk about 21st Century discrimination, n.... by aliens. Unbelievable. If I probably were to write the aliens a letter now it would most likely open like this...

Dear Aliens,

When you come to take over the world next time, please try starting from Africa. We are the emerging market and even the rest of the world knows it. Since your last attempt to take over the world, we as Africans have really made progress and we even have fibre optic. Further more, we as Africans are very warm and welcoming and have some of the finest weather in the world. Our primitive energy is second to none....

Then it would go on to explain further why they need to pick us first the next time they are coming to conquer the world and the advantages Africa has to offer. Yet again, maybe the letter would be a bad idea. I am sensible and know that the last thing I want is to open the curtains and see a flying saucer outside the gate. Btw ati flying 'saucer' of all the things in this world, these guys with all their imagination just decided ni saucer.......anyway....I won't get into that right now.

Enough of aliens (and don't ask me how we started talking about Fort Jesus and ended up talking about Aliens). These canons may not look like much now but in their day I can tell you for sure that some guys had to find out the hard way what these things can do. Lakini jamaneni, kwani how many canons were needed? I must have counted millions of them. ok.....ok..maybe 10's of them inside the FJ yard- numbering almost a hundred.

Go back a few hundred years and when it was time for war, you wouldn't want to be caught standing in front of this. This is one 'gun' you don't wanna jump....

This here is the yard for the famous FJ. 

Yaani....just look at the beautiful blue skies in the background. Just make me feel a sense of nostalgia. I totally enjoyed my visit. I'm Nairobian through and through but I totally love coast n would holiday there everyday (*read relocate) given the chance. waaaaat!

SO hey..... that sums up my short tour of the coast, Mombasa. What do you think about the coast, aliens or anything else? Please share your thoughts.