Kenya's coastal resorts become ghost-towns
9732
MOMBASA, Kenya  - In 16 years of working at resorts along Kenya's Indian Ocean coast, hotel manager Mohamed Hersi has never seen it this bad.
177745
After a false warning of new tsunamis, hundreds of victims of last Sunday's huge waves abandoned government refugee camps near the shore.
146609
When Steve Maina finishes a round of golf at Kenya's exclusive Windsor club, a waistcoated waiter hurries over with a tall iced drink while armed guards watch discreetly from the shrubbery, a few minutes' drive from one of Nairobi's oldest slums.
567242
NEW DELHI: Thousands of distraught Indian tourists started fleeing the once-idyllic Asian coastal resorts from Maldives to Sri Lanka and Thailand on Monday, a day after rising tidal waves left over 21,000 people dead in the region.
532300
In the wake of the tsunami, there was abundant amateur video of the disaster coming from tourist hotspots, like Phuket, Thailand. But some of the villages and islands in the path of the devastating
185820
Four decades after it was abandoned, King Island holds an almost mystical pull for former inhabitants and their descendants, its crumbling homes still perched on stilts, clinging to the steep, rocky terrain.
650881
ONGATA RONGAI, Kenya  - A convoy of shiny, 4 x 4 vehicles roars into the pot-holed main street of a small town, kicking up dust and scattering people in their way.
407051
Once known as East Africa's green "City in the Sun", Nairobi is so choked with traffic that Kenya's architects suggest moving to a new capital and angry business leaders say the booming economy is under threat.
517022
Kenya's seaside city Mombasa - and the nation's biggest industry - have taken a big hit after last month's riots swept the country
225343
Many believe the tsunami that devastated this tourist hotspot and killed thousands had one positive side: By washing away rampant development, it returned the beaches to nature.
767310
More and more South Africans are giving up on farming and transforming their land into upscale game reserves.
67740
BODOULI, Central African Republic  - The village of Korosigna in northern Central African Republic is barely recognizable to those who once lived there.
277645
Up to 30% of girls in some tourist resorts in Kenya are involved in the sex industry, a UN report says.
462237
Ban Nam Khem, a poor fishing village hemmed in by expensive tourist resorts on the Thai coast, wasn't missed by the devastating tsunami waves, but its people complained that aid efforts are bypassing them.
435100
Thousands of European tourists in Asian beach resorts were listed dead or missing in the wake of the tidal waves that engulfed the region after an earthquake.
300058
Many businesses were shuttered and streets were largely deserted Saturday as residents fled from this normally bustling island resort town amid concern that Hurricane Ivan was heading for Florida.
629204
SMOGEN, Sweden -- Minimalism dances nicely with luxury here, a former fishing village turned into a seaside resort on Sweden's west coast.