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Mombasa City Tour, Lunch At Tamarind, Haller Park

A visit to Mombasa is not complete without touring Fort Jesus located 'Mombasa Old Town' with a walk within its famous curvy narrow streets. Other highlights on this excursion include the Mwembe Tayari Open-Air Market, the Local Bazaars, The Akamaba Handicraft Carvers, Haller Park where you may feed two of its most famous inhabitants: Owen the hippo and Mzee the Tortoise. Tour also includes lunch at Tamarind Restaurant

0800hrs after breakfast depart for a tour of Mombasa city. The city of Mombasa, spread over a small coral Island, has a long colourful history. The tour will go to the mainland to visit the Akamba Handicraft Industry Co operative Society where you will be able to watch the craftsmen at work and bargain over their handicrafts.  You will visit historical places like Fort Jesus, built by the Portuguese in 1593 to secure their position in Mombasa and was under siege for more than 33 months before it fell to the Sultan of Oman in 1699.  We will spend some time exploring Fort Jesus Museum and wander through the old town admiring the myriad of shops selling perfumes, embroideries, wood or stone carvings, sea chests and even Persian rugs.  For thousands of years dhows have plied across the Indian Ocean carrying rare and exotic cargoes of spices and ivory.

You will then head to the famous Tamarind Restaurant with wonderful views over the Tudor Creek, here you will enjoy a delicious 3 course lunch (includes seafood), After lunch drive to Haller Park, where you will have a wonderful tour of which some of the highlights include feeding giraffe, watching as the large hippos, eland Oryx and buffalo also have their meal amongst many other interesting things. You will then be taken back to your hotel.

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