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Sunsail Hotel Lamu

PO Box 400 Lamu, Kenya

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A little slice of paradise on the Kenyan coast

A travel blog entry by julesandjen

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... and bags of sand on their heads load by load down to the water to be taken to the main land. The sun was so hot, we are amazed at the strength and stamina of these men.
















We carried on slowly but surely to the site of the ruins and after changing in to a smaller canoe we are rowed onto the banks.

The ruins are of a small ...

Lamu Island

A travel blog entry by didonis

... we had some food hiding in between the mangroves and finally we headed back, all singing some reggae and having fun Three kilometers north along the coast there is a beautiful empty beach, called Shella. In shella there is also a small town, even smaller thal Lamu, where there are some better ...

My time in Kimori

A travel blog entry by marrakeshtocape

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... is required - the amount often depending on the quality of the school. Therefore, unless a child performs so well at primary school that they get a scholarship for high school, or are sponsored, if their parents can't afford to send them, they find themselves out of the education system and maybe working in the field (or shamba) if male, or working as a maid if female.
The education system is also very competitive. Secondary schools are split up into local, district and ...

The Lamu Smackdown

A travel blog entry by evs1210

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... etc. A big group of us had gone to his place to see all this and helped build a hut for them to make these products so was a pretty cool day and lightened my mood after my third visit to the police station on this trip!

Such a shame as its a really great place but meant I left the island with a bit of a sour taste in my mouth..

I'm in Mombasa today having a look around before taking a night bus to Nairobi and then on further north.

Cheerio
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Feeding the fish

A travel blog entry by daveandmarit

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... br> Not sure whether it was because i was being bashed about by the current or that i swallowed some sea water but after a few minutes in the water i started to feel my stomach churning. I carried on and thought it would go away and managed to snorkel ok but on the way back to the boat it was all to much and i had to feed the fish (we had pancakes for breakfast). I could tell Marit ...