The The Indian Ocean is the third-largest body of water in the world, covering about 20% of the Earths water surface. It is bounded on the north by southern Asia (the Indian subcontinent); on the west by the Arabian Peninsula and Africa; on the east by the Malay Peninsula... Indian Ocean coastal strip with the capital city at Mombasa is the second largest city in Kenya. It has a major port and an international airport. The city is the centre of the coastal touristism industry. In Kiswahili it is called Kisiwa ya Mvita, which means Island of War, due to the many changes in its ownership. The city... Mombasa and inhabited by the The Mijikenda (literally the nine) are the nine tribes along the coast of Kenya, Somalia and Tanzania. They include the Digo, Chonyi, and Giriama. Each have unique customs and language, although the languages are similar to each other and to Swahili. Traditions are rich since British and German colonists had... Mijikenda and Swahili (also called Kiswahili; see Kiswahili for a discussion of the nomenclature) is an agglutinative Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa. Swahili is the mother tongue of the Swahili people (much dispute exists over the identity of the Swahili people since they do not constitute an ethnically homogenous group... Swahili among others.

Other important towns on the coastal strip include Diani in the South, Malindi / Watamu and Lamu in the North.

Diani is now a tourist center.

Malindi is where Vasco Da Gama picked up his pilot to navigate with the monsoon winds to India.

Watamu is a small fishing community and East Africa's first Marine National Park.

Climate

Tropical Humidity is the quantity of moisture in the air. It can be expressed as absolute humidity, which is the mass of water in a specific mass of air, or more commonly as relative humidity, which is the ratio of absolute humidity divided by that absolute humidity that would make dew... humid