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Garden House Lamu

Shela Village Lamu, 80500, Kenya

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The Coast

A travel blog entry by samdendy

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... other guys who were at a placement with her in Nairobi. The night bus was alright... it was a more expensive bus to catch but it came with three servings of drinks from a stewardess – and when I say more expensive it was only $15 for an 8 hour trip.

Arriving in Mombasa immediately I could tell the difference of this city compared to Nairobi. It was a lot hotter even though it was early in the morning and the roads were taken up largely by tuktuks which are ...

Donkeys and Dhows

A travel blog entry by texasnomads

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... 8211; which is saying a lot when you consider all the Bolivian buses I’ve taken. Not only were there 5 seats across (and no – it was not a wider bus, you were just only allowed half a buttcheek each), but we stopped to pick up every single person waving down the bus on the side of the highway enroute. Honestly, sometimes we’d drive through barren plains for 20 minutes with no signs of life in sight – and then see a woman flagging ...

A little slice of paradise on the Kenyan coast

A travel blog entry by julesandjen

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... treated to rice, coleslaw and then fresh fruit as dessert including watermelon grown on the family plot.




Luckily Ahmed-Bob had also gone out early to do a pre-fishing trip fishing trip and caught us a couple more fish so there was plenty to go around. After lunch we head back to the hotel for showers and some more relaxing and a treat of some ice cream. Given the hot weather Jules was pretty ...

My time in Kimori

A travel blog entry by marrakeshtocape

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... s car (a car, I know! even if the number of times it had to be pushed before it would start rapidly increased as my five weeks drew to a close) and drove for about 90 minutes along (and alongside) the bumpy, currently under development, road.

When we got into the house, I met Dorcas - Joshua's 18 year old daughter. Why she introduced herself as Dorcas though, when everyone calls her by her middle name 'Neno' (it took me a week to realise that this was her name and not ...

Local warmth in Lamu

A travel blog entry by hopskipstagger

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... double checked our seat belts as we continued on.

As we got closer to Lamu the road got worse and worse, the gravel road was pockmarked with holes, ditches and gorges. Our bus driver continued on at his pre-gravel road speed limit and despite getting air borne in our seats a few times we were happy as we were making good time and getting closer to our destination. Our rapid progress came to a screeching halt ...

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