Mtwapa’s floating restaurant

By Ngumbao Kithi

A visit to Mombasa is incomplete without a stop at the floating restaurant in Mtwapa. Mooring floating restaurant is on Mtwapa Creek and is a quest to keep the Coast a destination of choice

The Pomboo dhow where guests can dine as they enjoy a ride around the creek. [PHOTOS: Omondi Onyango /Standard]

Moorings floating restaurant is one of its kind in East Africa. It has a capacity for 200 people. Local and foreign tourists often throng the restaurant particularly during holidays.

For those adventurous enough to enjoy a boat ride, the Pomboo dhow, which has been modified with comfortable seats, takes off at 5pm and sails through the creek, covering six kilometres to allow passengers enjoy the sunset and, if lucky, see saltwater crocodiles. The dhow’s captain, Omar Ali, says sailing along the creek is his most exciting experience.