enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Nyali - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyali

    Nyali is a residential area and Sub-County within Mombasa City, located on the mainland north of Mombasa County. It is connected to Mombasa Island by the New Nyali Bridge. Nyali is known for its many high-class hotels and residential houses, modern standards, and long white sand beaches making it a popular destination for both local and foreign ...

  3. Coast Province - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_Province

    Diani Beach was one of the province's major tourist centres, with palm trees and white sandy beaches like Mombasa. Malindi is where Vasco da Gama picked up his pilot to navigate with the monsoon winds to India; Mambrui appears to be the site where contact occurred with the Chinese during the era of the Yongle Emperor and the expeditions of ...

  4. Monetaria moneta - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetaria_moneta

    Monetaria moneta, common name the money cowrie, is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. [ 1 ] This species is called "money cowrie" because the shells were historically widely used in many Pacific and Indian Ocean countries as shell money before coinage was in common usage.

  5. Shell money - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_money

    The shell most widely used worldwide as currency was the shell of Cypraea moneta, the money cowry. This species is most abundant in the Indian Ocean , and was collected in the Maldive Islands , in Sri Lanka , along the Malabar coast, in Borneo and on other East Indian islands, and in various parts of the African coast from Ras Hafun to Mozambique .

  6. AOL Mail

    mail.aol.com

    Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!

  7. Big building with ocean views is going up in Pismo Beach ...

    www.aol.com/news/apartment-complex-ocean-views...

    After breaking ground on the project in December 2022, Shell Beach Senior Apartments — a new affordable housing complex for low-income people over the age of 55 — is entering some of the final ...

  8. Trivia arctica - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivia_arctica

    Trivia arctica, the northern cowrie, is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Triviidae, the trivias. This is a similar species to Trivia monacha and it often occurs in the same areas. The name Trivia means "common" and the word arctica means "of the arctic".

  9. Ukunda - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukunda

    It is located in Kwale County, Coast Province, adjacent and to the immediate west of Diani Beach. It runs along the Indian Ocean , close to the International border with the Republic of Tanzania . It is located approximately 32 kilometres (20 mi), by road, south of the port city of Mombasa , the nearest large urban area. [ 2 ]