Shimoni Slave Caves In Mombasa
Shimoni Slave Caves In Mombasa : Shimoni caves are interesting tourist attraction on a Kenya safari as these are located in the southeastern part of Kenya near Tanzania across Wasini Island. On a Kenya safari you will explore the Shimoni caves that are located in the small town known as Shimoni where the Shimoni slave caves act as the bigger attraction that makes various tourists to come and explore it. More, so the caves acts as attraction for diverse number of the community based projects. Not only that the Shimoni slave caves has got the nature forest where the travelers on the safari experience the real meaning of nature.
Shimoni caves are such attractive and they are welcoming that makes you often very awesome and welcoming to tourists. The caves are such welcoming and very stunning place that you should explore on a Mombasa safari.
To base on the history, Shimoni began in the past years of 1750’s that lies on the Malindi. In Mombasa the Shimoni caves makes Mombasa the popular destination, the caves were the slave holding port that were used as the East Africa’s coastal slave trade that accessed from South Africa to the Middle East. Shimoni caves can be best explored with the help of the guides by the members of the Shimon Cave Committee. Then after years back in 1880’s British colonialism began their work in Shimoni together with the British Imperial East Africa company’s headquarters.
The caves were chosen by the British Imperial East Africa Company as during that time the place was not uninhabited. And after the British colonists added some of the buildings like the Kenya’s first colonial prison. Shimoni caves were used as a waiting pen for the captured slaves from the hinterland, and before the slave happened long time ago. Local people used the caves for the spiritual rituals or as a hiding places whenever there was a war.
In Kenya currently the building has been used as a makeshift shop where the local people go and sit and enjoy taking their tea at the same time as they are enjoying while listening to music. The place has been well established to become the main port such as a stopover for the ocean going trade Dhows that takes you as the Arab states of the Persian Gulf and the Zanzibar Island and Dar es Salaam.
Shimoni caves makes your Kenya safari the most meaningful one, together at the same time you can explore the Shimoni forest also called the coastal forest that has got all the tourists attractions like the jumped fossilized coral substrate, as well you can enjoy the nature walks in the Shimoni forest where you view the diverse biodiversity along the way. Also that’s when you can happen to enjoy interacting with the locals that stay in the neighboring area through enjoying their dances and songs and many others.
Shimoni caves got its name basing its in Swahili word that means the ‘’place of the hole’’ or inside the hole and this resulted because the caves the way they resulted by the seashore hence forming the result of the natural forces.
Shimoni caves being close to the Indian Ocean can be highly visited as part of the community run museum that helps the people to recall the dramatic period when the Arab slave that happened on a Kenyan coast. There are the chains that are cemented into the rock of the Shimoni caves after exploring it explains the human conditions in which the African slaves were kept as waiting for the Arab boats to come and pick them, and where the light barely penetrated with no any escape. On the safari you can explore the caverns full of the stalagmites and the sudden lagoons, and where various rare species do inhabit especially the bats.
On a Kenya safari after exploring the Shimoni caves that’s when you understand these caves and learn more about the Kenya’s history and relive its original setting where it all took place.
