Tag: Fatuma’s Tower

• Sunset Sail Around Lamu Island

  

  It has been a lot easier, of late, to justify our trips out of Nairobi. The days have been cold, and the politics has been draining. So when the election was first re-scheduled around the long Mashujaa Day weekend, my girlfriend and I seized the opportunity and booked a trip to Lamu. Few places in […]

  Jan Fox

  29/10/2017

  Coast, Food, Travel

  Dhow trip, Fatuma’s Tower, Lamu, Lamu Island, Manda Island, Monangu Dhow, Peponi Hotel, Sailing, Shela, Takwa River

• Fatuma’s Tower: Up in the Dunes of Shela

  

  With its narrow, donkey-trodden alleyways, carved wooden doors, wailing muezzins and rolling sand dunes, Lamu island truly is a world apart from the likes of Malindi and Mombasa further down the coast. The island’s charm has been tested numerous times, though, since it first established itself as a tourist destination in the 1960s. As celebrities […]

  Jan Fox

  13/11/2016

  Coast, Travel

  Fatuma’s Tower, Lamu, Shela, Yoga