It’s Tuesday and we’ve been snorkeling and swimming with Dolphins 🐬 in the middle of the night (06:30am again) we were waiting for our transfer to Wasani. So we had our swim clothes, towels, sun Creme and hats with us and were excited about the trip. After about 60 minutes we arrived at Wasani Park. This area is known for the 300 dolphins which living there and certainly for the underwater world. We’ve entered the Dhow, a typical wooden boat and go for the ocean.

A couple minutes after we saw the first dolphin which was swimming around the boat and said „hello“.

Then we’ve been going around Wasini Island and to the snorkeling area. Frankly, my first time. Stunning! Blue starfish, calamari, rainbow fish and much more! Interesting experience: obviously the coral left little parts of themselves in the water and this felt like thousand needles on my body! Lucky me, these are not poisonous and the pain disappears fast. Our second diving trip ends at a small sandbank. White sand in the turquoise sea … caribbean feeling. 🏝️

Time for lunch! Our Dhow brought us to Wasini Island, one of 4 island in the area. We’ve ordered fish, crabs and chicken. And certainly wine and beer. I still don’t understand why the beer is always so cold and white wine is warm? The waiter at our hotel served me the white wine with ice cubes. The learned fast 🙈 anyway! Our lunch. The crabs wer delicious and also the starters. Really good. Also the fish, the chicken was a wee bit dry, Bene said. But in the end, it was good.

Last point on our list for today was the visit of the Slave caves in Shimoni.

For the most memorable part, the ancient coral caves of Shimoni served as a pen in which over 1 million slaves would wait before being shipped to the slave market in Zanzibar, Tanzania & onwards to Yemen between 1860 and 1895.

It is believed that the slaves were held here for 2-3 weeks, before being packed in dhows – up to 1000 at a time. As many as 400 died during that voyage and were thrown overboard to be eaten by sharks.

Today it’s a reminder of some of the darkest periods in human history and a place to live and raise their baby’s for bats.