Malindi Street Scene

Malindi, a town on Kenya's coast, has a heavy Muslim population. This photo shows a typical street scene of stores and people. Even though Mount Kilimanjaro is about 300 miles away in Tanzania (the country south of Kenya), you can see the name is used all over East Africa.

In Malindi, instead of boda bodas (bikes for hire), tuk-tuks (pronounced twok-twoks) are a popular way of getting around town. They are very small cars with three wheels, one in front and two in back. There are now two or three tuk-tuks in Kisumu and we'll probably see more and more here and in other East African countries.