Tag: Lamu
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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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Up in the Sand Dunes of the Tana River Delta
As Kenya develops, and its population grows, it has become harder to find places that feel truly remote. It doesn’t take much to spoil the impression of isolation: a communication tower on the horizon, say, or the faint drone of distant traffic. So it’s a lot more special on those few occasions when I do […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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