Casuarina Rest House Lamu

The 30 min flight to Lamu was well worth while as it was very easy. Lamu is fascinating and all the locals are very charming and helpful. We had a worrying day re money as Lamu did not previously have a cashpoint and Barclays in Malindi, where we stopped to get enough cash to see us through, declined our custom. Fortunately, we still ...

... didn't mind the cockroaches, rats, the single toilet that was always plugged and the U shaped mattresses... oh wait, also the early morning bus honking incessantly outside the wine....if you didn't mind these things it was a fine establishment! It's all about the adventure and the experience. So on that note.... With our big plans to mainly stay out of trouble, our list of things to accomplish included watching a movie at the theatre....and finding some Chinese food. But we even went ...

... lediglich etwas dunkelhaeutig. Das wichtigste Fortbewegungsmittel sind so genannte "Dhaus", also hoelz**ne, meist mit dem Segel angetriebene Holzboote, und abends tummelt sich alles in den engen Gassen zum Abendessen im Freien. Ho**t sich alles ein bisschen mehr nach Orient als nach Afrika an, stimmt's? Stimmt, denn auf Lamu ist in gewiss** Hinsicht die Zeit stehen geblieben. Die Mehrheit d** Einwohn** ist nach wie vor suaheli, also genetisch eine bunte ...

... was Christmas after all (I kept thinking about all the money I would have spent on Christmas presents if I was at home, to justify the flight!).<br><br>The first difficulty was getting to the airport, as many people were leaving Nairobi for the holidays. It seems many people return to their rural/family homes over the Christmas period, and Nairobi becomes something of a ghost town. The traffic was pretty horrendous also because there were 2 graduations going on in ...

... an issue. You can't (legally) buy any here. There are two hotels with bars (the thought is that foreigners who stay in a hotel may not be Muslim and are therefore exempt from Muslim rule), but for us to have any in the house for our chef to serve with dinner, it had to be acquired through something of a black market. When we asked him to acquire beer and wine for us, he had to go to the only logical place to buy contraband ...

... obligés d'être extrêmes pour être accepté dans leur foi, de se mettre en rupture avec l'extérieur. Cela me dérange profondément. Même si je ne suis pas d'accord, je l'accepte pour les gens issus de cultures arabes, ou qui vivent en terre musulmane. Mais, je ne comprends pas comment, avec une éducation et une culture occidentale, on peut envisager de couvrir la tête et le visage de sa femme. Aujourd'hui, j'ai discuté voir flirté avec des jeunes filles qui portaient la ...

... are the beach boys who pursue you everywhere, offering dhow trips, marijuana and other 'services'. Their favourite ploy is to offer you a snorkeling trip with food, equipment and fishing. They arrange it for the following day and insist on a payment (essentially half of their quoted price) to purchase supplies, a list of which they scribble on a scrap of cardboard. Once you've parted with your money, that's the last you'll see of them! I almost ...

I called G**many yest**day and I heard that Afrika M*n Am*ur is n*w playing *n TV. I didn't really have the desire and the time t* write anything ab*ut it. Th**e is a l*t *f stuff t* write ab*ut the time spent w*rking f*r this m*vie but because I am busy at the m*ment trying t* c*pe with s*me new tr*ubles happening t* me in Kampala. I will wait a bit l*ng**. Yes guys, n*thing new! G**d m*ment aft** g**d m*ment! Tr*uble aft** tr*uble waiting f*r m*re tr ...

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 backs from people, to bricks and timber for the house to the weekly ...