East Africa is home not only to jungles and game parks but also to some of the world's most beautiful beaches. As far as I have read, unlike the beaches in other parts of the world such the United States or India, the beaches in East Africa ooze totally a different culture that reflects the Africans' belief, lifestyle, and culture. The life in and around the African beaches are slow paced and quite relaxed.
In addition, the food you get to eat in the coastal areas in East Africa is distinctly African with negligible influence of American or European cuisine. In this blog post, I will take you to 5 lovely beaches in various islands and islets of East Africa.
Seychelles would be on the bucket list of the majority of the ardent travelers and travel photographers in the world for its very beautiful beaches and coastline in East Africa. It is ranked high on the list of most beautiful islands in the world along with Hawaii, Bali, and Mauritius.
In order to visit the nearby islands in the Seychelles archipelago, you should head to Mahé, the largest of the islands and it is where the Victoria, capital of Seychelles is located. Mahé is a big tourist destination for its white powder sand beaches and its backdrop of lush hills.
The two popular beachfront in Mahé is the Anse Takamaka and Beau Vallon.
The name Zanzibar located in the Indian Ocean instantly reminds you the game parks in Tanzania whose culture and the way of life have enchanted me since my college days 5 decades ago. The people of Zanzibar are said to be innocent and thus very friendly. The beaches are white sand covered and the ocean water is a typical turquoise blue.
There are a few islets that are inhabited only by the birds. The Nakupenda Beach in Stone Town is the most visited beach in Zanzibar archipelago. The sea water looks a lovely blue-green and surprisingly very calm in spite of frequent high and low tides. Huge whale sharks are spotted in the Zanzibar islands. A rare variety of monkey called Red Colobus Monkey attracts people of all ages.
Other wildlife spotted in Zanzibar islands is the Sykes Monkey and Bushbabies also known as Galago. They look like large size squirrel. Rarely, the world famous Humpback Dolphins have surfaced above the ocean waters off Menai Bay.
Turtle buffs also like to chase the sea green turtles in Nungwi beach.
Kenya, the land of wild animals is the most visited place the world for seeing wildlife in their natural habitat. Off the Kenya coast lies the Lamu Island that is a part of Lamu Archipelago.
You might have read about the Swahili people, an ethnic group that occupies several east and south-east African countries that include Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Rwanda,, Burundi, Uganda, and the Congo.
The important city in Lamu archipelago is Lamu Old Town. The first sightseeing attraction here is the houses of Swahili people. The entire settlement is built with coral stone and mangrove timber.
Lamu is a peaceful beach getaway. The ocean blue is a sight to behold. Snorkeling is the most pursued activity here because of the presence of coral reef. The nearby Kiwayu islet lures the beach lovers with its calm surroundings.
Other attractions include the dhow sailing to Manda island and Manda Toto island that are also part of the Lamu archipelago.
The marine life in Lamu Island is an interesting mixture of sea turtles and whales. Among the sea turtles, you can identify the green, Hawksbill, Olive Ridley turtles. There are also the Dugongs ( a sea mammal), Dolphins, and Whales. The Greater Lamu Eco-region is known as a large breeding ground for the cute roseate terns, the aquatic bird with a white body and black head with the beak that has a lovely orange patch near the mouth.
Ah, I forgot to mention the Shela Beach that is a laid-back beach front with a long beach.
I know it is not in the most visited islands off the East African coast in the Indian Ocean but once you read further, you will wonder why you have missed it thus far in your life. The Réunion island (Formerly known as the Bourbon Island) is actually a French region and it is known to be an exceptionally beautiful piece land surrounded by the Indian Ocean on all its sides and lots of forested mountains inside.
This gorgeous island has so much to offer to nature lovers in the form of breathtaking waterfalls, lush green forests that are home to some of the rarest birds and insects in the world that not even some of the wildlife encyclopedia have not listed.
Some of the beaches in Réunion Island, East Africa sport black sand.
Interestingly, the food in Réunion Island is a great mix of Indian, African, and French cuisine.
There are several diving points in the island because of mountains. The marine life that is encountered by the divers includes Humpbacks, Dolphins, Squids, frogfish, and jawfish.
Do you know they export rum and Vanilla apart from sugarcane?
The ethnicity is a mixture of Hindu, Muslim, and Catholics.


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(HOST) Commentator Willem Lange has been thinking about language and change – and not necessarily in that order.
(LANGE) I've long assumed that when it came my time to be obsolete, I'd decide when that was. But I see it's happened without my permission.
Put me down for a language fundamentalist: snob, fogy, whatever. I can't help but deplore the drifting and dilution of the English language. It's not so much I can't accept its dynamic nature as that I believe many people in responsible public positions – news writers and editors, television anchors, and their ilk – either don't know how or don't care enough to get it right.
In the tenth grade I fetched up in TD Donovan's English class, where there were as few uncertainties as in fundamentalist religion. Convince, I learned, was not the same as persuade. Whoever confused them would suffer a life-threatening injury to his essay grade.
It's with irritation I hear young television news anchors pronounce a word much in the news these days as DIE-o-seez. Supposed to be DIE-uh-siss, and the plural a very ungainly DIE-uh-sisses. I sometimes e-mail the stations to complain, which is like dropping a rock down a dry well – no splash. Mother often tells me to stop shouting at the screen; it's pretentious and does no good. But hey, if sports fans can cheer and swear at a TV screen, I guess I can, too.
TD compared language to music. "You play the notes the way they're written, till you master the instrument. Then improve and improvise, if you want to. Master it before you try to manipulate it." For example, in recent years the word farther has been disappearing, and many style books now claim that further is the default mode. But I ask how it would sound if I changed the adverb by taking off the -ther. Only a rube would say, "I don't want to go fur." We'd naturally say far. Hence we should say, "I don't want to go farther." Am I right, or what?
There's a new language, too, that's inscrutable to geriatrics. It's not hard to compose text on our computers and send it by e-mail, or look up stuff in Google. But while we're doing those things, we're aware there are hundreds of others our computers can do. If we happen to punch one of those commands inadvertently, the result may be calamitous and irreversible. So I don't click on keys I don't understand, lest I be bombed back into the Typewriter Age. Unlike Alice, who followed the directions on the bottle that said, "Drink me," I refuse to try anything cybernetic if the outcome isn't foreknown. LOG OUT sounds especially ominous; I've never done it.
The next generation is bilingual, just as surely as if they were raised in France. They casually use words I have to look up on Google to interpret. The latest, sent to me by an alumni magazine editor, is userid – U-S-E-R-I-D. Took me ten minutes to figure it out: User ID. Great! So what's a user ID?
This is WL up in Emont, and I GGBTW.


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Does Speed Still Sell?
@JimRundle
It's been a very buy-side focused week, here at Sell-Side Technology. On Friday, we had the seventh annual Buy-Side Technology Awards, and around that, of course, all of the organizational and editorial work it entails. Thanks have to go to everyone involved in making it a success and, of course, congratulations to all of the winners.
With that in mind, it's probably appropriate that it was a buy-side story that prompted the topic of this week's letter. For a while now, we've heard from people on the sell side that, while speed is important, it's not the ultimate determinant of success that it was once portrayed as. A lot of people now zone speed capabilities, where there are the lower third who aren't at all concerned with it, the mid-tier, who are fast enough to compete but do so among themselves, then the bleeding edge, for whom every millisecond counts.
But how much of an impact does this have? On the buy side, money is still being made, but in a far more limited manner than previously. High-frequency trading (HFT) shops simply aren't as profitable as they once were, whether it's due to regulation, the investment required to maintain technological superiority, or other reasons. On the sell side, many people that I speak to say that it's stability and quality that they're after, with speed as an added bonus. Yes, some brokers have done very well out of high-speed market access, particularly the Russian brokerage houses of late, but for the bulge brackets, it's just not as front-and-center as it once was.
Or is it?
Quite frankly, it depends on who you're asking. NYSE Euronext, for instance, still talks about time savings when introducing new networks, such as the microwave-based one it plans for London. Banks do a brisk trade in their low-latency platforms, such as Citi with Velocity, while (some) exchanges are copping a lot out of their co-location schemes.
But that's all around speed as an idea, without seeing the kind of frantic rush to take off fractions of a second that resulted in firms laying new lines between New York and Chicago, at enormous expense, a few years ago. It tends to be a thing for newer markets these days, where the faster connections to newly liberalized exchange landscapes, such as Australia, can net dollars.
Some people that I've spoken to, quite frankly, have said that speed is unattractive these days. They worry about the effect of things like the financial transaction tax or, more accurately, the psychology that indicates among the regulators and the wider public. Regardless of right or wrong, people seem to find something inherently disturbing about the very idea of HFT and high-speed trading through algorithms. But speed is necessary to compete, and expensive to maintain, leaving many firms in a quandary.
High-frequency trading (HFT) shops simply aren't as profitable as they once were, whether it's due to regulation, the investment required to maintain technological superiority, or other reason.
So yes, essentially, speed still sells, even if it's only the very edge that care about the milli/micro development. For others, it's expected.
In terms of more events, don't forget that the European Trading Architecture Summit is coming up, in London, on November 19. Details can be found here.
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