Nyuma Gereza Hotel 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 ...

... and working on films, hanging out with movie stars, also being and architect... no big deal. I can't think of one story that might be at all interesting after that! So Chris pretty much entertained us with his stories...while James and I tried to keep up! The quarry is amazing. These men working there are covered in white dust, their eyes have turned red from the dust... and they are cutting these huge coral bricks and stacking them by hand in the scorching heat. I don't envy ...

... 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 ...

... to go back. Sadly, I didn’t even go on a donkey ride. I imagined it would be a little cruel; I joked that my feet would drag along the floor (however I probably would have been a lightweight compared to the loads they carry). They looked so sad, grumpy and bored. And much smaller than I imagined, or maybe I’ve grown since I last saw one.

The narrow winding streets of Lamu are perfect for donkey transportation. In fact on several occasions I ...

... 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 ...

... il s'agit de montrer l'avancée de mes enquêtes, de mon plan détaillé, bref plein de choses bien ennuyantes pour tout autres personnes que celles impliquées dans le projet de recherche. Je fais aussi des copies de tous les documents que j'ai pu obtenir afin de les laisser à l'Ifra. Par ailleurs, je me suis aussi pris la tête avec la comptable, qui est une vraie peau de vache, et je ne suis pas le seul, Calas le premier... Une semaine plus tard, j'en ai terminé avec le m ...

... i was travelling alone but made really good friends with other guests as the atmosphere is very relaxed and people chat over the delicious breakfast of fresh exotic juices, tropical fruit, banana/mango pancakes, eggs, delicious kenyan coffee/tea, and in fact joined up with them to go on dhow trips- fishing/sunset cruises/too see baby turtles hatching. there are lots of captains from the dhows who will want to take you out on trips- i ...

... hanging out with the crew, all for about 10$ US for a 5.5hr trip - not to shabby, I must say. Only problem, dear old Andrew was retarded for a bit and didn't regulate his sunblock properly. Needless to say, at the time of writing this - I am peeling like a bunch of bananas at a Hungry Monkey convention. Just a lazy relaxing part of Kenya, it's still fairily untouched by mass tourism. I hope it stays that way. The hard part of everything is as Mzungu, you ...

... 17 minutes, which included a kilometer sprint and two frantic Tuc-Tuc rides. My new Celtel number works in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, without the need to pay any roaming fees! I immediately understood why their slogan was "making life better". The bus was driving like the one in the movie Speed (with Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves), except that it didn't have a bomb on it (as far as I knew), it was not shiny and new, and the road resembled the surface of the ...

... my hammock between pillars of coral block on the fourth floor. The wind rocked me to sleep every night. The landlord's son and his friends are always hanging out on the fourth floor. They're all about to graduate from secondary school. Almost half of them are named Mohammed. I enjoy telling them what Amerika is really like, and playing reggae for them. Someone now sells palm wine out of the old Culture Studio, and my friends are some of their best customers. Little ...