Soak your soul in the love language,Take a culinary day out.

What you need to know:

Diani/Mombasa is a destination where cordiality and love are celebrated. Here lovers get to come alive as they officially start their matrimonial journeys and enjoy a honeymoon together.Mine wasn’t a honey moon but a trip to dip my feet into sandy beaches of southcoast.

Eliud and Dee

Dee, My Fiance lay on her back as she smiled, her eyes sheltering behind blue sunglasses as she blissed in the delight of swimming in the splashy green and blue waters of the Indian Ocean.

It is a sunny Sunday afternoon and tourists, several of them couples and families, are out swimming in the ocean while others either sit or walk, and some kick some white sands.

Diani is a destination where cordiality and love are celebrated. There, lovers get to come alive as they officially start their matrimonial journeys and enjoy a weekend or honeymoon together.

Kongo public beach access point

Diani has a history which keep the body warm, a vast clean coastline but it is the people around that give you the psychological warmth . People will greet you with smiles that tickle the soul and tenderize the heart to the idea that Kenya coast is indeed a beautiful thing. I started sampling the Diani coastline from The Jacaranda hotel to Neptune .Quite a distance but it’s worth taking.

Most of the hotel staff I interacted with are natural at making guests feel at home at their facilities. From the local eateries to exclusive restaurants the pattern is almost similar.From the artistically chiselled Arab doors that I was glad to study closer to appreciate the precise designs that exhibit patterns that represent the lifestyle of the coastal people whose lifestyles were heavily influenced by the Arabic and Portuguese traders in the past century.

I was to later take note of the weather. The environment is suitably warm and cold too. I was welcomed to gentle rain drizzles from the open skies that seemed to signal a good week ahead at the subjectively natural coastal luxury compound.

Dee is a lover of style and an outdoor kind. So after booking in for the day, we left our room to venture outside for a walk which turned to be an all day affair. We walked along the beach, took boat cruises, canoe rides, kite surfing, scuba diving, marine tours and swimming in the ocean . What’s interesting is that all these activities are managed by the local community groups.Hence good income to them.

Community run beach restaurant

For lovers of culture and the unique heritage of the coastal people, The Beach operators showcase their wares along the road. Shukas, handicrafts,curvings and art drawings are displayed to showcase true Swahili style that embodies use of stones or wood richly decorated. Wooden high hanging ceiling are not left behind beautified using baskets, local shakers, mats, shuka and more.

The roadside curvings and artifacts

Speedys bistro-serving most Kenyan coastal dishes

In every Restaurant you enter; Lovebirds, the introvert, extrovert, friends, and groups- private or corporate will find a place to sit and talk, sit and enjoy a meal, rest or even sleep and probably contented of the security and hospitality offered across..

Jacaranda resort beach stretch

activities offered

A large swimming pool

Somewhere along the beach line, tourists love going about the simple pleasures of life; cuddling, turning pages of their favourite novel cover to cover, undisturbed, smoke a cigar, or just listen to the indulgent sound of waves hitting against each other on the gigantic blue Indian Ocean- the third largest on our planet Earth.Along the road leading to popular clubs street food joints their is always a well maintained lawns of the compound, the environment in Diani is well maintained to it’s natural state. You breath fresh air from the trees.Also the roadside is covered with pots that serves a decorative placement. It should additionally serve to remind the tourist visitors of the enviable traditional life of the coastal and indeed African people. 

Fried fish with corn meal.

sugar cane, beetroot juice

Fried snapper and spinach

But it is the culinary offerings that got my palate excited,Dee, My Fiance is a lover of Fish, a lover of food,And thats why she is Romantically endowed each day .This trip was meant for her ,for us, to re-energize our love and no other place other than Diani. Diani for me any time. As we say bye-bye to Diani we say keep the hospitality alive. Fish,coffee chai(tea) and Ooh I forgot Dee loves vodka and whisky too.

Vodkas