Africa's Best Kept Secret / The ONLY Over The Water Villa in Kenya / A True Dream Vacation
guys welcome to paradise guys we just made it at the sands at chale island in diani kenya and it's i'll keep it for myself we'll show you guys and the thing that i love about living in kenya is that two and a half hours ago we were in nairobi it was rainy it was cold-ish not very nice in a big city chaotic and look at us now like to be honest i'm a little speechless right now because to stay where we're staying which you will see in like two seconds i like this has been a dream of mine and i didn't know you could do it here in kenya yeah and um we came across it by fluke and i was like no like this is it like we have to go here like we just have to there's no way you guys will see in a few minutes but we're basically in the maldives want to show them around yes i have to show you so you can understand why i'm speechless okay let's go on the other side and start at the actual entrance this is like our backyard welcome to our over water villa come see this so when you come in it goes two ways but we're going to start this way first so on this side we have just kind of like a living area i love these when we stayed actually in diani airbnb that we had had those outside and they're so comfy and our um personal favorite we get a full 18 liter dispenser of cold and hot water that's a plus because we drink a lot of water especially me and especially when it's warm just like in diani so this thing i'm much more happier than you think about it so something else to note which i didn't know because online said there wasn't in the overwater villa you actually have a fridge too which will come in handy and then if we go through here we have some closets on this side with a safe hiding our stuff just because come up here to the bathroom so you have a separate room for your toilet you have a shower right here your two sinks i'm not gonna show you in front of me right now but you will see okay come back yeah and then when you come through so this would have been a few turns the other way instead of at the beginning is our bedroom so one little things i start to notice the mosquito net looks brand new i'm not gonna lie it's perfect you have a big king sized bed you have a desk probably won't use it but this guys this is the best part come see now this is the best part so we have here where you can sit or you can come down here and sit or you can come down here and sit again those beds outside my favorite but this we have our own water access i just i don't think we're gonna leave this place i think i agree we could move here are we moving here uh yeah we're gonna start with two nights but we might stay here forever who knows so we're gonna go see what's for lunch and then after that it's gonna be bathing suit sun tanning swimming in the ocean and a lot of good stuff like island life so the over water villa that we have is actually on the other side of the rest of the resort meaning we have like extra privacy but yeah we're gonna walk a lot which is good that's good because we need to get our steps in like we do good for like three four days in a row and then we go back to our old habits 10 000 steps here i come so lunch was great very good pizza i finally had a really good chocolate cake yeah the our chocolate cake was actually delicious i had a fruit salad because you guys know me i'm the healthier one um one thing to remember to be honest if you ever come here pay for the full board it is so worth it the food was delicious big portion but very expensive if you don't have full board so yeah keep that in mind for sure so we are back to our overwater villa finally wearing some you know beach style clothes yes our aka you know swimsuits i i keep thinking like we have we should have come back here sooner to the coast oh yeah being here it made me realize how much i missed it yeah so to be honest the coast in kenya best beaches in the world absolutely so yeah let's go in the indian ocean let's go check it so the indian ocean is pretty nice it's a perfect temperature and for once like it's actually refreshing every time we go to the coast and go either in a pool in the ocean it's just too warm and it's not refreshing i don't know if it's just like the change of tide that's happening right now but like it's it's nice yeah the tide is slowly going down but we had a good swim yeah we did and i just had like an epiphany i just said that really wrong epiphany there you go the way the sun is it's literally gonna set right in front of us over the water like how perfect is this guy's when i asked tracey what we should do now she's like well you should go get a bottle of wine anyone shocked no you can put it in our fridge for sun downer time yeah no it's going to be a good spot right there when we can where we can actually sit i think it's going to be nice i like this place i'm still i'm still up to move into this place forever um yes please i have no issue with that we'll talk we'll talk to the owner we'll see what we can do so that was a very nice and relaxing afternoon a little bit of swimming a little bit of working a lot of reading for tracey a lot of relaxing yeah it was nice and the temperature is lovely right now so the water is completely gone like i'm not sure where the ocean goes at night but it it it's going to bed so yeah so now we're gonna go for tea see what's up with that and probably get a nice bottle of white wine and bring that back to our over the water villa for sundowner i am i don't know i'm so pumped for sundown because we have a very nice spot for it so yeah let's go see let's go so we just uh we just had a quick look at uh tea time but we didn't take anything because to be honest we're not very hungry because we ate way too much for lunch and we have supper later on but we got the wine we got the wine we got the wine we got the wine so when the tide is out they actually use the tractor to get to the main land diani time for a little shower before a sundowner and the shower even has side jets sun's going down it's sundowner time. it was a lovely sundowner very relaxing the view from here guys is like it's a 10 out of 10 like for sure but now we're not that hungry but we're still gonna go for supper because if i don't eat now you'll be hungry later i'm gonna be hangry later you'll regret it yeah so we're gonna go see what's for supper everything at the buffet was pretty good but i saw that they have a pasta station i kind of have to try it out so i'm going to go do that while tracey probably is going to get dessert what did you get tracey a lot of dessert and some fruit and it's all to share tracey already picked a bite from my plate but apparently the pasta are very good are they um they also have a catch of the day fish that they actually just cook fresh from there still a full fish there oh it's pretty good too so we just came back from supper it was actually pretty good we actually missed a full like full-on selection of all the kenyan food we realized after it was in like different um different section kind of yeah like in big pots anyway so i missed chapatis which i'm very very sad about i'm sure you'll eat but the rest of the food was super good pasta station delicious that's some fresh fish amazing yeah like he literally was like gutting it and chopping it right there and then onto the grill and get fresher than that no so now we're gonna enjoy this glass of wine cheers and go to bed and start again tomorrow we're gonna try to do something tomorrow maybe some snorkeling or something mixed reviews i want to but i don't want to because i feel so like chill and relaxed here it's it's very it's unique it's like we're just in our own little bubble and we're so so happy what i love is that we're so far from the rest of like the resort that this is completely private here like i just wish we could have our meals here and then like maybe we wouldn't we'd never have to go to the yeah main spot but it's a buffet yeah but luncheon oh wow anyway so good supper yeah cheers again and see you guys in the morning good morning guys it's the next day slept pretty good a little warm we have like a big fan on top of the bed but it doesn't go through so because the mosquito net so yeah it was good overall so right now we're gonna go for breakfast because we gotta wait for uh for the water to come back because there's no water right now and yeah we're gonna try to find something to do today because you guys know me if i don't do something and just lay down i'm gonna go crazy tracey would love that but i'm gonna go crazy so there's some activities some things to do free and things that you can pay for so we'll see what we want to do and we should also go check out the pools because we haven't even oh yeah we didn't really show you like we'll do a little quick uh walk around to maybe right after breakfast just to see what's uh what's around but like i haven't even seen them i've seen one it's just yeah or like our cottage is like so nice oh i know we don't need to go anywhere just to go there but i just feel like we should at least see the rest okay so uh let's go breakfast tour and what are we doing today while we're waiting for the water to come back this passion fruit is so sour it makes my eyes water but it's so good that i don't want to stop eating it so we just finished breakfast breakfast was pretty good you know omelets waffles uh sausage lots of fruits yeah delicious mangoes um so we're gonna just do a quick walk around of the resort because we didn't really show you guys right now we're completely on the opposite side of the island compared to where we actually stay in our little over water villa so they have a very nice beach in the morning it looks like you know there's a lot of like algae and stuff but there's actually uh people here that are like raking it up raking it up so that's really good because we've been to other resort where they just leave it so you know at the end of the day the beach is literally like brown so you know so that's pretty cool otherwise behind me those are like the the normal rooms that you can stay and they're actually very affordable so you know if you because where we're staying right now it's kind of expensive so those ones great option if you can see there that's a separate island where they actually have their uh honeymoon suite and it's called the rock cottage or something like that that is their most most pre premium suite it's like a massive loft it's really really big we'll try to get a better view of it so you can see it a little bit better here how like that's fully detached and then there's like a little bridge that you walk across to get to it so this place here actually has a full-on diving school when you can get certified and we're definitely going to do that not now because we don't have enough time but the next time we come to the coast i really want to come for like five days or something and do a full certification and something i always wanted to do so it's on the list now we're gonna show you the pool so this is the pool and there is a jacuzzi up there as well hey guys look at that we're back in our little shack and the water is back how cool is that because i cannot stay for a full day in this magnificent over water cottage because i'm just like hyperactive then we're gonna go uh do some kayaking and i think we're gonna be fine at first we thought it was at 11 but i'm pretty sure it's 11 30 because now it's like 11 10 or something stay tuned we should go on kayak soon so now we're gonna switch the gopro tracey show me your best kayak move what is the kayak yeah that's pretty good remember that when you're in the kayak so i don't do all the work back to our shack we kayaked all the way to our shack it's not a shack but i can't kayak at the same time that's fine i'll do all the work i'm just going to sit here and film it if you have if you want to film this is your time the wind picked up and we got lost in the ocean we don't know where we're at it's been five days and we have no water and i've been eating little crabs from the ocean now we're just right there but the wind is really strong and there's a lot of wave slowly trying to get back and hopefully we're gonna make it we made it save me thank you we just came back from our kayaking adventure it was quite fun quite a workout because there's a lot of wind and a lot of waves there's a lot of like current here that you don't really see yeah and then after that we actually uh went for lunch and we saw some people that actually uh i was quite surprised to see back those two girls in the kayak they were far like real far and they were struggling a little anyway everyone made it back safe so that was pretty good it was it was fun it was something to do right yeah um lunch was good once again didn't show you because it's i don't want to be repetitive then after that we actually went to a little walk uh on a part of the compound that we didn't see us before just a few minutes ago there's two pools like one on the other side of the island yeah there's actually three pools another one that we didn't show you guys but this one actually has like a bar in the middle so that's pretty cool and a super nice view of the ocean yes lots of wave there though you can't swim there no yeah so now we're going to relax a little bit for about an hour then after that we're going to do something else cool something that i did like seven years ago only once and that tracey never did that's going to decide what we do in the near future too so fair stay posted so while tracey's reading our book and i can't sit still i'm gonna go snorkeling it's cold a little there's really not much to see right now can't see much because like there's too much current and like the sand is everywhere that was a very unsuccessful snorkeling experience didn't see nothing because there there's like no visible visibility in the water right now so oh well but now like some fishes are back i'm gonna try to show you can you guys see those like three or four long kind of transparent slash blue-ish fish because we're not sure what they are so if you guys know let us know in the comments uh down below because uh me and tracey are kind of wondering they're all around their little water villa here so just a question we have tracey do you have any other questions for our people no just chilling no just relax so the second activity of the day what is it um free diving in the pool yeah so we're gonna be able to like try the equipment and try to breathe underwater so before you know like in this video we actually told you that we're interested in like doing a certification for diving but tracey actually never tried to the equipment and like breathe underwater and stuff and there's actually like people that just can't do it like they just freak out too much so before we pay money to like do the certification uh probably here in kenya at some point on the coast well tracey is gonna try it out so we're gonna see how it goes do you think you're gonna freak out i really don't know i won't be shocked if i definitely freak out in the beginning it's a question of if i can adjust yeah i think you're gonna freak out a little but i think you're gonna be able to like work through it i think so okay let's go check this is the pool where it's going to happen now we're just waiting for the instructor and the equipment i think he's coming how was it it was good yeah yeah i actually thought i was gonna freak out more to be honest so that's not bad good job so first experience diving i liked it me too um i did not freak out nearly as much as i thought i was going to and the like the things that made me freak out were not breathing yeah through the tank so it's good for me mainly the flippers yeah seriously mainly for me like now i know what points i need to work on if we actually want to dive sometime she did really good so i think we're probably gonna do that certification at some point soon hopefully because i really really i enjoy water in general and i love snorkeling so i feel like diving is just one step better yeah absolutely and like it's especially when you're diving to see like a reef or something like that yeah it's not just like diving for the sake of that yeah so coming up soon diving certification for now we are having a little sundowner just tracey and i in our on our little balcony watching the sun goes down and the water go out while enjoying now some local beers and this is the this is the hard question here we are opposites i prefer white cap he prefers tusker what do you guys think let us know in the comment section down below are you a tusker person are you a white cap person we just realized we haven't had like beers in a really long time just because we normally go towards wine yeah we love them anyway cheers to paradise in kenya i know we've said this a lot but i really don't want to leave this place two nights is too short i think we need at least three nights guys it's gonna be really hard to leave tomorrow it is it is so nice right now we're just just before supper watching the sun going down it's very very nice and the temperature is like lovely at this time of the year it's like not too hot because normally sometimes you go at the coast in kenya and it's like you know 38 degrees insane but not only that like i have to say and i wonder if it's a difference with the seasons but like we did not burn we put sunscreen on like once or twice a day whereas before last time we were at the coast we put on almost every hour yeah but i mean look at that it's literally perfect it is also i'm fascinated by the tide like we wake up in the morning there is no water at all in the middle of the afternoon we literally have water like to here and it's beautiful and right now again no water there's literally people like right there crossing from the island back to the diani it's crazy and just like that the water is gone the sun is gone that means it's time for supper supper i'm excited but i'm sad because ah i love sunsets yeah this place is a perfect sunset it's gonna be real sad to leave anyway so we're gonna go for supper and we're gonna catch you guys back up tomorrow for the final review because you guys saw what supper is like you know let's not make this repetitive plus tracey likes when i don't have the camera on my hand all the time oh it's just a little more extra i get that she doesn't want to share me with you guys share a lot see you guys in the morning and just like that we're getting ready to leave watching the water come in one last time i don't want to go we really don't want to leave this place was great like we had a great time we were here for three days two nights and it was everything was great i think something that kind of helped both of us was the season that we came in because last time we were at the coast was january and it was ridiculously hot it was way too hot whereas here like i'm not sweating all the time yeah but it's warm and i can swim yeah it's just the perfect weather yeah but overall our stay was really nice this hotel is actually super cool they have like three activities like the kayak and the diving that we did was actually free we didn't pay for that every day they they have uh things to do for free they also have a snorkeling i think once in a while and things like that so that is that is actually a lot of value that you get for free it is the resort itself is a very nice resort but you need to keep in mind that the room that we have right now is way better than anything else on the resort there there's a big gap in prices as well but this this is what makes the resort for me yeah and there actually is one more room even more expensive the rock yeah one that over the rock honeymoon suite basically it's a massive kind of loft on its own island so i'd be curious to see what that looks like but to be honest like i think i would prefer here oh yeah not only with this place you have a very nice inside you have a nice balcony direct access to the water from the outside but the privacy is a 10 out of 10 because you're literally alone on this side of the island because all the other cottages are literally on the other side you gotta walk like what like almost four four minutes four or five minutes yeah just to go to the main lodge so the privacy here is just unbelievable it really feels like we're alone in this world and another massive perk for me sunset is directly in front of you yes so at night you're gonna have like a little glass of wine sundowners it's just amazing here yeah so now into the things that you guys always have questions about like the food and everything like that food's good i mean i wouldn't call it five-star dining but it was still very good there's no issues with that as we said earlier definitely recommend going with full board because the lunch prices are i would say they're inflated pretty expensive i mean like it would cost in canadian dollars like close to like 90 dollars just for lunch so i mean if you want to get like an appetizer and everything isn't it 22 dollars a person to add on for the full board something like that something like that it's really reasonable so like the full board option is definitely worth it so it's actually also for your transfer it's 60 for transfer from the airport yeah and for two nights the the price out of full board is uh 1248 us dollars but again always send emails call places because uh we paid a thousand dollars us full board tonight in the over water suite with the transfer as well so we saved just over like 300 us um so yeah it's always worth calling especially in low season yeah and flights right now are super cheap as well yeah so that combined it we got a big discount on this entire package yeah so that is it for our coastal trip in diani and we're going to be back soon because it was really nice and we're going to definitely come back in this time of the year because the weather overall is much better rainy season not really we had a little bit of rain when we woke up this morning but that was pretty much it so anyway don't forget to like this video subscribe to the channel and see you guys in the next one so this is the best so the indian ocean is pretty nice move your hand you're on it move it okay because they're like all around our little bungalow here and tracey and i are kind of wondering what they are bungalow i don't know they're all around their little water bungalow here and uh they're all around their little water villa here so just a question we have
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