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| Kenya: Over 300 Tourists Arrive in Mombasa 17 February 2008 Posted to the web 18 February 2008 Philip Mwakio Nairobi Three hundred and fifty five tourists arrived in Mombasa aboard a charter flight and a cruise ship. Those arriving by charter flight - 175 - flew aboard an African Safari Airways (ASA) Airbus that touched down at the Moi International Airport at 6.45am. ASA Mombasa station manager, Mr Zahoor Kashmir, told The Sunday Standard that the tourists were from Vienna, Austria, and the UK. "ASA has brought down its weekly flight rotations into Mombasa from an original five to three owing to effects of post election skirmishes," he said. Some of the over 170 tourists who arrived at the Moi International Airport, Mombasa, aboard the African Safari Club Airbus. Most of them are from Europe. Hundreds of others arrived in a cruise ship that docked at the Mombasa port. The ship is the second to dock at the port this year. Picture: Andrew Kilonzi The tourists were driven to African Safari Club (ASC) hotels in Mombasa North Coast. And at the port of Mombasa, 180 passengers disembarked from MS Royal Star, a cruise liner operated by Starline Cruises. MS Royal Star is the only cruise ship that has defied travel advisories imposed on Kenya. Prior to her arrival, the ship had brought 479 tourists into Mombasa. Mr Niki Nikolaus, the vessel's cruise director, said at the port that the ship had arrived from South Africa where it had sailed through Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Morsel Bay and East London. Relevant Links East Africa Kenya Travel and Tourism Mr Christian Mohremstrecher, a Swiss musician aboard the ship, said that he was happy to be in Kenya. "We all know what has happened here and hope for a quick solution so that life in your beautiful country can return to normal," he said. MS Royal Star sets sail today for the Indian Ocean islands of Mayotte in the Comoros. |
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