Mombasa Old Town

Coast Province · Kenya

Mombasa Old Town, Kenya
Photo: Shiraz Chakera, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
June to October
Budget
$
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A tightly packed Swahili quarter of carved wooden balconies, Omani doors, and coral-stone houses beside the old dhow harbour. Its lanes mix Arab, Indian, and Portuguese influences accumulated over centuries of Indian Ocean trade.

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