Bye to Lamu Island

Well, what a place, It appears it’s one of the secrets of the rich and famous, from UK’s real royalty to Hollywoods fake royalty, Monoco’s royalty have villas and the rich come and hide.

No roads, only boats, and Donkeys, so serene and relaxing.

But tomorrow we move on to collect Dogger from Mombasa…and the journey really starts

Shela in Lamu Kenya fantastic small streets , really nice tiny restaurants and friendly people
Farid our captain for the trips around Lamu
Farid the best captain in Lamu, a knowledgeable guy and very freindly
the main street in Sheel lamu
the main road to Lamu, really the road from Shela to Lamu is the beach
Mosque ruins around Lamu
Milly feels like praying in the abandoned mosque near Lamu
It’s a tree !!!
Many Dows make a good boat in Lamu
Many beautiful houses along the perfect seashore and they use these dows to get to town
the boardwalk across the mangrove swamps of Lamu
Milly wasn’t happy with this rickety bridge over the Mangrove swamps

The pathway to the Swahili ruins

The whole town is like this, tiny passageways everywhere, only by foot or donkey can it be traversed
Digging up the coral to make bricks to build houses for the rich Europeans !!

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