Baitil Aman Guest House Lamu

Hi all,

After a night of no sleep we headed to Shella beach for the New Years Day dhow race... The place to be seen.

The beach was packed when we arrived and waited for the start. On the signal the crew sprint from the beach into the boat, opening the sails and heading off. The race lasted about an hour and a half and the atmos...

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!

Can't believe its ten years since the millennium!!

Had a wonderful night, it started off with drinks at Abdul's followed by an acrobatics show. A bit like Cirque de soleil but without the health and safety laws, then it was dinner time, fresh fish, shrimp, calamari and chicken curry mmmmmm!!

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Today we went for a snorkelling trip with a few people from our guest house. They had been out before and so wanted to go somewhere different so we opted for a coral reef an hour or out on the open sea. The crossing was a little rough in our sailing boat (dhow) and on the way out a few people started to turn a bit green, i was fine though and fe...

Flew out of the Mara on the 31st and met up with my friend James in Nairobi and the New Kenya Lodge... a backpackers hostel. An interesting spot... right in the heart of the area in Nairobi that you don't want to be in after dark, but at $500 Kenyan Shillings per night the price was right! On our first night in Nairobi we ventured as far as righ...

Nach meinem Tauchkurs hatte ich eigentlich alles gesehen und getan, was ich in Kenia sehen und tun wollte. Ich war auf Rusinga, hab mir Kakamega angeschaut, die Thomson's Falls, Flamingos, hab meine Elt**n getroffen, bin auf Safari gegangen und habe schliesslich tauchen gel**nt. Ab** eins fehlte noch. D** Lonely Planet listet es als eines d** fu...

The holiday season truly began with a pizza and drinks at a restaurant in Nairobi with some other VSOs. My friend Trixie had come over to stay for 2 nights with me in Kasarani in Nairobi, before we departed for Lamu together, which is an island just off the coast of Kenya. We left Kasarani on the morning of 20th December for our Christmas holida...

On Thursday, twelve of us descended on the airport for the 1.5 hour flight to Lamu, an island off the coast of Kenya, where we settled into the two houses we rented. With its dark, narrow, winding walkways, crumbling stone and cement buildings, an assortment of small shops selling beaded jewelry, clothes and wood carvings, and stray donkeys eve...

Kenya : Hakuna matata !! Et enfin le dernier volume de mon passage en Afrique de l'Est: entre mémoire à l'IFRA et baroude! Pendant les quelques jours qui suivirent mon arrivée au Kenya, je bossais sur mon mémoire entre Muthaiga, chez mon oncle et ma tante et l'Ifra, où je montrais l'avancé de mes travaux à Calas. La vie chez eux est très agréabl...

KENYA Mombassa to Lamu Monday 18th We woke up at 05:00 and ran down to the office to pay for our bus tickets. The early bus had already left, so we had some time to kill before the next one left. I didn't have any Kenyan Shillings and Jenn had paid for the hotel and bus, so we went in search for an ATM which would hopefully accept my VISA Electr...

One long bus journey from Mombassa up to Lamu complete with locals, chickens and a few soldiers. Followed by a short ferry hop and we're in the laid back lovely Swahili town of Lamu. No cars on the island, except for the jeep owned by the donkey hospital. All the locals get around on their donkeys. The donkeys also carry everything on their back...