Garden House Lamu

... some emergency US dollars. Dan please bring us some more I think you have better bring 400, as the cashpoints are often unfriendly. Anyway, when we arrived in the pouring rain, we found that Lamu has installed one cashpoint since the Lonely Planet 2006 edition was written and it was a friendly one. Our next new friend, Ali ...

... dried out and nearly devoid of meat, James' Jumbo prawns looked like a better call. SO eat, head back to Peponi's and he has already left. This meal may have cost of a friendship. This brings us to chapter 3. Chapter 3: Glisten Also known as sweating profusely. Did I mention how hot it is here? It is mother hot. Our guest house provides us with breakfast, which is truly delicious.... Fresh fruit and a tasty fruit pancake... which is more like a crepe. MMM, and a fruit smoothy. Yum ...

... and it was nice to be able to spend different days with different people; I think if it was a smaller group it could have been more difficult. We didn’t get bored of each other’s company because we were quite a large group. I am grateful to have spent what could have been a difficult and strange Christmas away from home with such lovely and down to earth people.

Trixie and I had dinner at the hotel the evening we arrived; the others had ...

... ad arrivare a Lamu... Lamu. Dunque. Sembra un po' grecia, con le case bianche, le strade di sabbia e asini ovunque. Un po' tunisia forse, dato che le scritte sono in arabo. Gli unici due mezzi a motore dell'isola sono un'ape e un furgone aperto, su entrambi c'e' curiosamente scritto `ambulanza`. Ah no, ci sono anche due moto. Il pomeriggio lo passiamo a perderci fra i vicoli di un posto veramente al di fuori del tempo, e la sera decidiamo di ...

... we bought a selection of beer and wine, along with a dodgy looking bottle of 'bond seven' whisky. The wine sees us through dinner. The beers see us through our beatiful dhow ride from Lamu to Shela, in the dark, with just the sail and our sailors (who had definately had more than us!). We arrive at a beach party on a quiet section of beach where mostly local men, and suprisingly women, have set up a sound ...

... l'Unesco et se présente comme un retour dans le passé d'un mode de vie swahili. Il n'existe pas de moyens modernes de locomotion, pas de supermarché. Il flotte un air d'authenticité et de magie que l'on ne retrouve nulle part ailleurs au Kenya, ou en Tanzanie. Les milliers d'âne en sont un héritage, servant de moyens de transport pour toute sorte de chose. Le lendemain, comme prévu, nous sortîmes sur Zeitun pour assister à la régate de Dhow qui avait lieu, célébration ...

... you are looking for a place AWAY from everything, this is the place for you. 3 days of beach, eating and hanging with the locals. I decided to kick it up a notch and stay at a 'luxury' hotel (3 star) for a total of 1500 Kenyan Shillings a night, pool, one of the only 3 or 4 bars in town (Lamu is 95% muslim) - so yeah, that's about $24 a night. The great thing with Lamu was, being one of the few 'Mzungu ('rich' white people), even in the pitch black of night ...

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 Electron debit card. Two ATM's later I still had no money, and my regular bout of morning sickness (like clockwork) came on, just ...

... I love it or hate it but it is good. Getting here was quite another story. This morning we got on another coach type bus, which wasn't that full. we took off a 45 minutes after the "time of departure" and started travelling toward lamu. I totally thought that the trip would be pretty easy but was I way wrong! ONce we started travelling we kept stopping to pick up more people...and more people...and more people. It was ridiculous how many people ...

... dowel with a spade bit on the end, you pull the bow back and forth and it spins the bit, the multi speed comes in by moving the rope up or down according to the different diameters of the dowel. Again, if you can build a whole boat with 3 tools, what does Don need all of those tools for? The island has been discovered by rich Europeans. Many of the larger homes in town and on the beach have been purchased by French, Italians, and English and are being restored. They hire the ...