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Kusini House Lamu

Kizingoni Beach Lamu, Kenya

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The Coast

A travel blog entry by samdendy

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... so many good things about it so we planned to spend most of our time there. On the Sunday morning we caught a taxi back to Mombasa. We went to bed at 4 and got up at 5... so much fun. Ashley and the other guys were going to come to Lamu on Tuesday but Diana, Jerome, Claire and I left on the Sunday. Our plan was to go to Gede Ruins which is just a lost city that was dug up, it was on the way to Lamu but we had to get a 2 hour matatu really early to have enough time to visit the ...

Donkeys and Dhows

A travel blog entry by texasnomads

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... per person, so when touts started quoting us KSh7,000 (that’s – like - $100 people!) we had mild cardiac arrests. However, it turns out that since the book was published, the dhow captains and workers have unionized to ensure fair wages for everyone – fair enough. But still – that pretty much annihilated any dreams we had of sailing the seventh sea. Finally, on our second day in town, we met a captain named Hassan who worked with ...

A little slice of paradise on the Kenyan coast

A travel blog entry by julesandjen

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... 8217; in the form of a switched off metal detector which we walk through bags and all to the other side of the shack housing it to then have a guard run over and ask us to go back through whilst he boots up the generator in order to conduct his job!! It’s hilarious and after a very quick walk through we head to ‘departures’ which consisted of a few rows of seats under a small shaded area right next to ...

My time in Kimori

A travel blog entry by marrakeshtocape

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... being that I nearly fell into one of the ponds when I stepped back just a Little too much to let a student past. Still not quite sure how I managed to not fall in but I remember lurching forward just in time, as my life flashed before my eyes.

At the end of the first day I also went to Litein to visit Robert, Joshua's first son, and Nancie, Robert's wife. You might find it slightly alarming to know that i drove as far as Mogogosiek. This was only at 5-10 mph though, as ...

Local warmth in Lamu

A travel blog entry by hopskipstagger

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... feel very welcome by the locals who greeted us with "Jambo" wherever we walked. Tourists were few and far between and by the end of our week there we were starting to feel like we had made a few friends with the locals. There wasn't any of the hard sell that we encountered so much of in Egypt and in other parts of Kenya. It was the perfect place to relax and unwind.

We ate dinner one night with a local family eating ...

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