Kenya Safari Journal -
Day 12b
We spent the morning driving through the town of Mombasa. Again, what
interested me most were the advertisements. Trust condoms had two really cool
ads that you saw alot of: "Let's Talk"
(English)
(2)
(Swahili) and
"Life is Better with
Trust"
(2). Another big advertiser is
Coca-Cola /
Fanta. Almost every store or kiosk and
even schools have a sign for Coke.
Malaria is a big problem in Mombasa and two available treatments are
Falcidin and
Supanet ("For good sleep").
Kenya's most popular newspaper is
The Nation. Further in town, we saw
ads for Kodak Film,
Earth Day,
another one for Africa Online,
ikenya.com,
Energizer
(2) batteries,
Kencell and Bata shoes,
Tusker Beer,
Smirnoff,
Cadbury's Chocolate, and the new
Intellowasher from LG.
Like I said, we did some sightseeing in Mombasa...not just looking at
signs. We saw the Old Harbor and
downtown
(2). In the center of town, there
are two very large elephant tusks
spanning the road.
In the afternoon, we flew back to
Nairobi, where we then flew to
Amsterdam.