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Mombasa: A hallowed land, sanctified by countless, and abhorred by a few

Far and wide, with a hazy horizon, and a diminutive figure-of hustle and bustle, of the Nairobi town-nestles an enchanting, Mombasa Island.

Tucked away on the far south-east coast of Kenya lies Mombasa, a cosmopolitan realm built on a Swahili and Arabic amulet.

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