Peponi Hotel 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 ...

... we get it down to basically $3300 per night... there reason being that the room is bigger and has two beds. Keep in mind that this is a Muslim negotiation in that my... being the intellectually inferior sex was not asked to be part of the discussion. Great. Ummm, HELLO no ocean view or balcony like the other rooms. Had to let it go at that point though or I would have been mad the whole time. Could have moved but actually quite like our location. Before I move on to the ...

... D** Grund fu** seine Reise: Seine alte Heimat besuchen, denn **st vor kurzem endete seine Zeit auf Lamu, nachdem ** dort fu** fast dreissig Jahre als Lehr** gearbeitet hatte. D** konnte mir inn**halb ein** halben Stunde schon fast mehr ueb** die Insel **zaehlen, als ich v**mutlich jemals selb** haette h**ausfinden koennen, und war gemaess sein** Erfahrung aeuss**t zuv**sichtlich, mich dort wied**zutreffen. Und natu**lich hatte ** Recht! Auf Lamu sieht ...

... surreal airport transfer I have ever known. We walked away from the landing strip about 10 minutes towards the jetty, where long motor boats were waiting for us to take us to Lamu island. The trip over was pretty dreamlike; the sun was not far off setting and most people on the boat were silently stunned. We gently chugged across the stretch of water absorbing the warm sun and relative humidity. As we approached, I can only describe what looked like a random ...

... una cena luculliana a base di gamberi, pesce e un granchio enorme con cui ho lottato per una buona oretta prima di riuscire a dominarlo. Stamattina (come spesso in questi giorni) ci siamo svegliati con le nuvole, e ora ci dirigeremo pole pole (piano piano) verso una spiaggia a mezzoretta di cammino da qui. Pole pole e' la filosofia assoluta del posto, stamattina abbiamo aspettato circa 40 minuti che ci portassero un caffe'... e siamo assolutamente nella ...

... egg arrives. It took me until the 3rd morning here to successfully hide my toast until the egg came so I could put the egg on my toast! Stepping into a 'restaurant' (and I use that term loosely in a third-world country) for lunch or dinner is easily a two hour ordeal or longer. You can pretty much count on over an hour from the time you order to the time you food arrives at the table. Not a place to 'grab a quick bite'. In fact, THIS is a place ...

... I wasn't going to easily shake him, so I invited him to join me as I get a drink. I wasn't particularly in the mood for engaging Shay in conversation, but his persistence broke me down, and in the end, I was glad it did. It turned into a very entertaining exchange...and answered a lot of the questions that had been burning all week. "Can I buy you a beer?" "Yes, thank you." "But you're Muslim, no?" "Yes, but it's a secret ...

... et lance une attaque circulaire de son long couteau, il est trop court d'un poil, et avec ma plus grande allonge, je le touche légèrement au niveau des côtes sur son torse nu ! Cela déclanche chez eux une réaction inattendue, les deux acolytes de mon « captain » s'enfuient. Jamali, plutôt vif, s'enfuit avec eux, profitant de leur protection. Je reste sur place, tremblant du contre choc d'adrénaline, heureux du dénouement. Je m'assois alors pour me calmer. Je réfléchis ...

... st*p the ri*ting and c*mplaining. W*uld he be c*nsid**ed like "GOD"? I d*n't think s*! It w*uld be an Evil act, w*uldn't it? S* please bef*re y*u decide t* punish me, set me free! Than, maybe I will accept t* talk t* y*u! Wh* ev** y*u are! St*ry t* c*me One *f the stunts went wr*ng because*f pe*ple's inc*mpetence! 40 guys ended up in the wat** aft** the sinking *f 4 diff**ent b*ats. 15 *f us didn't kn*w h*w t* swim at all. N* safety jacket, n ...

... African boy/girlfriends! All rather odd. After two days I had had enough so i got on the bus to Lamu. The bus trip took seven hours and was hell from start to finish. Although I did see a monkey on the side of the road. We had to have two armed guards on the bus because of the risk from bandits. All rather exiting. For those of you who have been, Lamu is like Varanasi in India except in Lamu there are donkies not cows. In fact, there is only one car ...