Tag: Lamu Island
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Manda Bay: Of Beaches, Buffaloes and Bee-Eaters
We banked steeply out of Malindi Airport and headed north along the concave stretch of coast towards Lamu. Above Kipini the Tana River seeped chocolate-brown streaks into the ocean, swirling with shades of deep blue in the currents. There were only a handful of passengers on the plane as we had predicted. Among them, coincidentally, […]
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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 […]