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I stayed in Charming Lonno Lodge in Watamu last summer; this video brings back good memories thank you. Kenyans are so generous, I miss those I made friends with but I keep in touch with some on IG. I shall return especially to help tourism. Long live and may God always bless 🇰🇪 💚❤️🖤
Jason, I visited Kenya and Tanzania in 1968. Haven't been back since but so much of it looks the same. The main difference on the road from Mombasa to Malind1 was that there used to be a pontoon bridge at about mid-point on the road. All passengers had to get off while the bus was towed across the river. Malindi itself was more charming. There was a real open-air market in the center of town, not just a tourist attraction. I remember drinking some home-made brew there, probably not advisable. I went snorkeling with a local guide & it was lovely. I don't remember any of those resorts on the beach. In the old town of Mombasa, there was a faint air of hostility to the stranger. Goods were placed on platforms in front of godowns by mostly Indian traders & they weren't particularly welcoming to a lone tourist. I wish your videos were showing more improvements over time, but it was nice to see how well you navigated around.
Great movie. I was moved to tears. I was in Watamu, this year I am going to Malindi. I have many friends there in Watamu. My stay at Watamu was amazing. Everyone was so nice and kind. Unconditional kindness is impossible these days, and yet I experienced this wonderful feeling. I am looking forward to September and my trip to Malindia and my friends in Kenya.🌹🌹✈✈
Nice to see your videos which are full with historical perspective of places you visit added with soft clearly voice to give good understanding. Thanks a lot.
Very impressed by your pleasant delivery, character, sensibilities, local knowledge, respect for others and their culture. Remain the good person you appear to be. It is what is most appealing about you
Love your videos! Your energy is always so positive and you always try to see and make the best out of everywhere you are. It was so cool to see the 500 year old city center! Kenya is definitely on my bucket list. Thank you for bringing us along with you on your travels
I really iove the exposure now being given to this side of the world thru yours and other youtubers vlogs. I am learning quite a bit. I went to Mombasa and Diani and enjoyed both locations but now I see parts I didn't get to. What I am finding out is that there are lots of awesome ancient ruins all over sub Sahara Africa that never gets talked about or seen. Everybody is only amazed by the pyramids of Egypt and other North African countries. Not sure why tourism ministers are not pushing this area more.
The entire land of Africa is beautiful and every country has its unique beauty and good vibes. It's such a shame that many people assume North Africa is the only good part of Africa. Instead of just referring to Africa as Africa the powers that be shamelessly still divide Africa into "haves" and have-nots" Just think about it: Who on earth came up with the word "SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA." As an African I've always felt insulted by that term. What are we? sub human? sub par? subordinate? And to who? To the north Africans? To the desert above us? THIS NONSENSE needs to stop from 2022 onwards. We are not sub-anything. Just call us by our names eg. Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya etc. or if one must generalize, then just say Africa south of the Sahara. We are not inferior to the north Africans. The beautiful Sahara desert was not meant to divide or define us. Please please please African youtubers, let's change this narrative. If we don't change the way the world looks at us and describes us no one will change it. For anyone who doesn't know, this is what "SUB" means: 1. inferior 2. lower in rank 3. subordinate 4. beneath 5. below 6. less than 7. sub-human 8. smaller 9. subservient (as in slave/servant submissive etc) 10. subject (under control of another). Please Europe, America, China stop calling us "sub-Saharan Africa". It's an insult. Just call us by our names or simply say East Africa, West Africa, Southern Africa, Central Africa etc.
You show reality of every country...i always feel after watching your video that now it's not necessary to go there because you have shown everything and given to me lots of thing of this country...Thanx a lot friend
Jason: thanks again for another facinating & educational video on the Swahili coast of Kenya. PS: there is more to the history of the ancient Swahili town of "Gede" [Geedii] & how it became a ruin than what your guide shared with us. Gede's story was unique because it witnessed something very rare in Africa. It was here where a powerful & slave+ivory trading coastal Swahili state was raided by an African tribe, conquered & forced to pay a tribute to an African chief/s. In this case, the cattle-hearding & nomadic tribe known as the "Galla" [Oromo] swept-down from the interior of the Horn of Africa - aka from what is today southern Ethiopia+northern Kenya - invaded 'Gede' along its powerful coastal Swahili State, all the way down to Mombasa. Following a series of raids by a segement of the Galla/Oromo tribe known as the 'Orma" &/or "Warday'; Gede & the Swahili State it was part of were turned into a 'vassal/tributary state' - a colony of sorts - of an African tribe. This arrangement was maintained for a century or two but was abandoned as the members of the Galla/Oromo tribe - whose descendants still live in the area - focused on defending their land from their arch-enemies - the Somalis - & as the Swahili residents of Gede moved-out or died-out. Then, gradually, the African bushes swallowed "Gede" or "Geedii" [a common Galla/Oromo name for a place or a person]. It is possible that the original Swahili name of that town/ruin was a more Swahili-sounding one, as "Gede" or "Geedii" appears to be a name coined for it by members of the Galla/Oromo tribe. More significantly, the more egaliterian & free-spirited nomadic cattle-hearding Galla/Oromo tribe blocked the slave raids carried-out or sponsored by the coastal Swahili states into the interiors of East & North-Eastern Africa, for more than 4 centuries [roughly between the 1490s A.D to 1890s A.D. [the time the British arrived in Kenya]. Because of that, the vast interiors of Nort-Eastern Africa all the way to South Sudan & Ethiopia, enjoyed relative safety & peace from Swahili & Arab slave raiders. In a sense, not ALL Africans were passive participants in the East African Swahili slave raids & slave trade. Of course, African students are NOT taught about any of these things at their schools beyond what your helpful guide told you/us. In fact, it is not clear what exactly the African schools teach their students in terms of the continent's history. Take care & all the best.
Jason thank you for your fascinating video! :) Really enjoyed seeing all the sites you showed and learning all the information you shared! :) Awesome video! :) Thank you! :)
To be fair, motorbike & tuktuk guys harass everyone We have multiple of the poisonous tree at home lol. We don't touch it but it has very beautiful flowers Thanks for the guided tour of Gede Ruins!
Gede is fascinating. I wonder why they abandoned the place....it looked like a beautiful city. It is quite far from the coast. The coast had fish and food from the ocean.
Of the 170 Portuguese sailors, only 55 of them returned back to Portugal. They said once they reached Goa a lot of the Portuguese sailors fell in love with the women and did not want to return back to Portugal.
Kenya is a beautiful country 💖❤️jassom you look familiar,I think you came to pumzikA massage in Mombasa town & I was your therapist... kindly confirm if you are the one
Thanks for sharing Jason. I have lovely beach plots with lovely white sands in Tanzania ( Dar es Salaam & Tanga). I'm looking for partners to invest together.
Jason travels like I like to travel. To go out and see and "feel" the new place. Fancy resorts and fancy restaurants don't interest me much. Kenya however, surprisingly doesn't interest me much for a reason I cannot explain. Is Kenya dangerous? Bandits? Islamic fundamentalists? Maybe just too many touts.
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Come visit BOTSWANA my beautiful land with beautiful safaris and waterfalls
Good job
Hey Jason ...are you still in malindi?
I stayed in Charming Lonno Lodge in Watamu last summer; this video brings back good memories thank you. Kenyans are so generous, I miss those I made friends with but I keep in touch with some on IG. I shall return especially to help tourism. Long live and may God always bless 🇰🇪 💚❤️🖤
That's awesome.
Jason, I visited Kenya and Tanzania in 1968. Haven't been back since but so much of it looks the same. The main difference on the road from Mombasa to Malind1 was that there used to be a pontoon bridge at about mid-point on the road. All passengers had to get off while the bus was towed across the river. Malindi itself was more charming. There was a real open-air market in the center of town, not just a tourist attraction. I remember drinking some home-made brew there, probably not advisable. I went snorkeling with a local guide & it was lovely. I don't remember any of those resorts on the beach. In the old town of Mombasa, there was a faint air of hostility to the stranger. Goods were placed on platforms in front of godowns by mostly Indian traders & they weren't particularly welcoming to a lone tourist. I wish your videos were showing more improvements over time, but it was nice to see how well you navigated around.
You should come back again.
It is so very interesting to see Kenya through your eyes, Jason - it certainly is a country filled with natural beauty!
No doubt about that!
Welcome to our beautiful country 🇰🇪 ❤❤💜... I enjoy every bit of your vlogs 🙂☺
Asante!
Thanks for the upload sim planning a trip to Kenya and your videos and the comments they get bring me great hope and make me feel safe. Thank you.
Great movie. I was moved to tears. I was in Watamu, this year I am going to Malindi. I have many friends there in Watamu. My stay at Watamu was amazing. Everyone was so nice and kind. Unconditional kindness is impossible these days, and yet I experienced this wonderful feeling. I am looking forward to September and my trip to Malindia and my friends in Kenya.🌹🌹✈✈
Karibu kenya
Welcome to malindi 💓💓
Second to see this video here much love from Uganda 🇺🇬
Nice to see your videos which are full with historical perspective of places you visit added with soft clearly voice to give good understanding. Thanks a lot.
Very impressed by your pleasant delivery, character, sensibilities, local knowledge, respect for others and their culture. Remain the good person you appear to be. It is what is most appealing about you
Thank you Jason... Many places where I would never be able to travel to.....You make it possible.. Really appreciate what you do!! 👍🏽
Love your videos! Your energy is always so positive and you always try to see and make the best out of everywhere you are. It was so cool to see the 500 year old city center! Kenya is definitely on my bucket list. Thank you for bringing us along with you on your travels
Very informative as usual.Thanks Jason. John in Chicago
I really iove the exposure now being given to this side of the world thru yours and other youtubers vlogs. I am learning quite a bit. I went to Mombasa and Diani and enjoyed both locations but now I see parts I didn't get to. What I am finding out is that there are lots of awesome ancient ruins all over sub Sahara Africa that never gets talked about or seen. Everybody is only amazed by the pyramids of Egypt and other North African countries. Not sure why tourism ministers are not pushing this area more.
The entire land of Africa is beautiful and every country has its unique beauty and good vibes. It's such a shame that many people assume North Africa is the only good part of Africa. Instead of just referring to Africa as Africa the powers that be shamelessly still divide Africa into "haves" and have-nots" Just think about it: Who on earth came up with the word "SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA." As an African I've always felt insulted by that term. What are we? sub human? sub par? subordinate? And to who? To the north Africans? To the desert above us? THIS NONSENSE needs to stop from 2022 onwards. We are not sub-anything. Just call us by our names eg. Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya etc. or if one must generalize, then just say Africa south of the Sahara. We are not inferior to the north Africans. The beautiful Sahara desert was not meant to divide or define us. Please please please African youtubers, let's change this narrative. If we don't change the way the world looks at us and describes us no one will change it. For anyone who doesn't know, this is what "SUB" means:
1. inferior
2. lower in rank
3. subordinate
4. beneath
5. below
6. less than
7. sub-human
8. smaller
9. subservient (as in slave/servant submissive etc)
10. subject (under control of another).
Please Europe, America, China stop calling us "sub-Saharan Africa". It's an insult. Just call us by our names or simply say East Africa, West Africa, Southern Africa, Central Africa etc.
You show reality of every country...i always feel after watching your video that now it's not necessary to go there because you have shown everything and given to me lots of thing of this country...Thanx a lot friend
Happy to hear that!
Good content I love them all.
Kindly visit Diani in Coast to see the best beaches over there.
Another lovely video tour. With you all the way, thanks Jason!
Thanks for joining along Liz!
So beautiful to see around
Jason: thanks again for another facinating & educational video on the Swahili coast of Kenya. PS: there is more to the history of the ancient Swahili town of "Gede" [Geedii] & how it became a ruin than what your guide shared with us. Gede's story was unique because it witnessed something very rare in Africa. It was here where a powerful & slave+ivory trading coastal Swahili state was raided by an African tribe, conquered & forced to pay a tribute to an African chief/s. In this case, the cattle-hearding & nomadic tribe known as the "Galla" [Oromo] swept-down from the interior of the Horn of Africa - aka from what is today southern Ethiopia+northern Kenya - invaded 'Gede' along its powerful coastal Swahili State, all the way down to Mombasa. Following a series of raids by a segement of the Galla/Oromo tribe known as the 'Orma" &/or "Warday'; Gede & the Swahili State it was part of were turned into a 'vassal/tributary state' - a colony of sorts - of an African tribe. This arrangement was maintained for a century or two but was abandoned as the members of the Galla/Oromo tribe - whose descendants still live in the area - focused on defending their land from their arch-enemies - the Somalis - & as the Swahili residents of Gede moved-out or died-out. Then, gradually, the African bushes swallowed "Gede" or "Geedii" [a common Galla/Oromo name for a place or a person]. It is possible that the original Swahili name of that town/ruin was a more Swahili-sounding one, as "Gede" or "Geedii" appears to be a name coined for it by members of the Galla/Oromo tribe. More significantly, the more egaliterian & free-spirited nomadic cattle-hearding Galla/Oromo tribe blocked the slave raids carried-out or sponsored by the coastal Swahili states into the interiors of East & North-Eastern Africa, for more than 4 centuries [roughly between the 1490s A.D to 1890s A.D. [the time the British arrived in Kenya]. Because of that, the vast interiors of Nort-Eastern Africa all the way to South Sudan & Ethiopia, enjoyed relative safety & peace from Swahili & Arab slave raiders. In a sense, not ALL Africans were passive participants in the East African Swahili slave raids & slave trade. Of course, African students are NOT taught about any of these things at their schools beyond what your helpful guide told you/us. In fact, it is not clear what exactly the African schools teach their students in terms of the continent's history. Take care & all the best.
Thats true am from kenya and history of Gede is not taught as clearly as you've just narrated. Thanks a lot for that information.
I really like your broadcast Jason ! Thanks and congratulations from Ivory Coast west Africa
Some good work here @JasonBillamTravel .Thank you for promoting the town
I was waiting for you bro since long time
First love from algeria wish that you 'll be back to algeria ❤️❤️
What an interesting video.
Great work as always.
Keep it up.
Glad to hear that.
Jason thank you for your fascinating video! :) Really enjoyed seeing all the sites you showed and learning all the information you shared! :) Awesome video! :) Thank you! :)
Just back from kenya. Great spot. Diani beach another good spot
Nyali too is nice place to be
@@irenekamande2754 yes stayed there last week.....
Welcome back on your next vacation
@@irenekamande2754 14 falls maybe next 😆
Oh yeah as you go to maasai mara and mybe different place too
Really interesting!
Hats off mate Never been to Malinda and was born in Kenya 🇰🇪
Great video jason. So informative. Thank you for sharing
We used to take our vacations in Malinda. We used to visit the Vasco deGama chapel. I think it is the oldest chapel in Africa.
Malindi is also very seasonal . I noticed living close by that the low season is very low and high comes on high.
When is the low season?
True..i went to Malindi in 2020 December. The restaurants and hotels were almost all sold out. But that was before covid
thank u for exploring kenya
u most welcome here
Great video 💪
Thank you for showing us around Malindi, Jason! It is a beautiful place! I hope you got a chance to swim in that lovely pool!❤
I wish I did but I was too busy!
@@JasonBillamTravel Oh, the life of a traveler! It can be a juggle to fit it all in!
🙃❤
To be fair, motorbike & tuktuk guys harass everyone
We have multiple of the poisonous tree at home lol. We don't touch it but it has very beautiful flowers
Thanks for the guided tour of Gede Ruins!
Nice trip report anyway. Thanks
Glad to hear it!
Yeey! You are going to TZ as well! 😄👌
Series coming soon!
👏👏👏👏🏝🌊¡Hermoso lugar! Saludos desde Buenos Aires.
Gracias!
@@JasonBillamTravel ¡De nada! 🤗🇦🇷🙋🏻♀️
It's good you asked for the price before boarding the tuk tuk because some of them usually overcharge.
I love malindi nice city’s I went to the Italian night clubs all night had beaches party people from globes dancing till Night morning 2018
Come again
Gede is fascinating. I wonder why they abandoned the place....it looked like a beautiful city. It is quite far from the coast. The coast had fish and food from the ocean.
Its a DUMP n DANGEROUS.
The slave masters and traders were raided by some east African tribes .
Jason I like u blog video, i'm big fan you,thank you
Cheers Mohammed!
3:54 I think the wind noise adds realism for the viewers, might be slightly annoying but it's there so...
Thank you for visiting Kenya. I am Kenya woman from Narobi.
Many of the hotels close out of season, late April to early November..at which time they work on renovations
Great video 😁
You should have come to Nairobi West near nyanyo stadium 🏟️.
Beautiful
I love your realness
My city my town, MALINDI ❤❤❤❤
What about the abandonet Coral Key?
You should have gone to vipingo between Mombasa and kilifi famous for meat skewers miskaki
How do they keep it so green in a hot and dry place like that?
Hi Jason looking good
The ruins of The Great Mosque. This place is so interesting and beautiful
Nice love it
Damn, Malindi is beautiful. I was there 3 years ago.covid also contributed.
It is. Definitely!
@@JasonBillamTravel i think its so DANGEROUS..
Can you say about the price in Kenya? How is compare to other countries
Malindi is always the best place to be
Thanks for another awesome video ❤️🇨🇦❤️
Of the 170 Portuguese sailors, only 55 of them returned back to Portugal. They said once they reached Goa a lot of the Portuguese sailors fell in love with the women and did not want to return back to Portugal.
The best beaches are on the south coast though. But Malindi is good for history
Nyali beach was like paradise when I went back in the early 1990s.
Why dud u not get a TUC TUC from the villa
Let me travel around Kenya with you through your videos...thanks for showcasing the lovely country..
Bravo
You did not see the Portugese Court of arms atop the monument
Govt
Kenya is a beautiful country 💖❤️jassom you look familiar,I think you came to pumzikA massage in Mombasa town & I was your therapist... kindly confirm if you are the one
Most of the Italian used to be in Mogadishu, Somalia before the civil war there , many migrated to Kenya
Interesting
Am in malindi. Hello
Malindi looks like it has changed quite a bit since my last visit. Think you'll find Tanzania more chilled and cheaper. 👍
Good things dont come cheaply😄
How are you liking Kenya so far?
Nice
It looks very much what the Portuguese would have seen when they arrived in 1492 as it has not changed much, apart from that large house / building.
Calicut and Calcutta are not the same! I'm from Calcutta
(That board is wrong)
🔥🔥🔥🔥❤
I saw myself ❤️
Thank God only 53000 views.
Go to Somali next
Can you pliiiiize upgrade your mic from swindon UK 🇬🇧
You were so close to the magical White Elephant ..and You didnt entered It ..such a mistake
Hi
i am confuse.. you got so many views but in social blade website you got only 2.4k usd a month.. why?
He had 600,000 views last month which would give $1000 max.
Did you see any snakes there?
I didn’t!
Keep going
Thanks for sharing Jason. I have lovely beach plots with lovely white sands in Tanzania ( Dar es Salaam & Tanga). I'm looking for partners to invest together.
❤🙏🏻🦋🎼🎵🩵
No way you paid 500ksh for entrance I think that was to much should have been 200ksh ..
Malindi is beautiful all the same..
How is India caste SYSTEM?
Im named after this place, my name is Malindi 😂
Jason travels like I like to travel. To go out and see and "feel" the new place. Fancy resorts and fancy restaurants don't interest me much.
Kenya however, surprisingly doesn't interest me much for a reason I cannot explain.
Is Kenya dangerous? Bandits?
Islamic fundamentalists?
Maybe just too many touts.
EXACTLY
@Rigathi Gachagua its DANGEROUS for WHITES.
We READ KENYA HATING WHITES online...
It used to Germans but now it is Italians. Someone said it was the new colonialism.
Always been Italians in Malindi, they own all the hotels and even the local people speak Italien as a second language. Germans were in Tanzania.
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He did not find India. The oppressors are still at it
Exactly also it is crazy the best places in kenya are taken by white ppl! I MEAN I DONT MIND IF THEY LIVE THERE BUT WHY THEY DONT MIX THE KENYANS ???
Sorry for the harassment. It happens to everyone.
worshippers? Literally can retire along the coast.
Looks like nothing much to see in Malindi
That's because this is a quick video
Non ci verrei neanche pagato!
Nice
So beautiful
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