For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. An old building in Lamu.[Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard] Lamu Old Town’s alleys ...
What comes to mind when you hear of Lamu? Today, many would say insecurity with the number of attacks by Al Shabaab in the area in mind. Before the insecurity tag reared its head though, Lamu was ...
One travel writer reports there’s no place quite like Peponi Hotel, which has hosted guests from the Obamas to Kate Moss. From left: Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Getty Images; C1R/Shutterstock From ...
"You cannot go in there," the adolescent chided. He repeated this, slowly, as if it were an accepted fact that infidels are of inferior intellect. The problem wasn't merely that we were infidels -- it ...
Lamu Old Town is a Unesco World Heritage site that is considered to be a living museum of Swahili culture and architecture. Photo Credit: javarman/Shutterstock.com Lamu Island, off the coast of Kenya, ...
At its 33rd session (Seville, 2009), the World Heritage Committee requested the State Party to invite a joint WHC/ICOMOS/ICCROM mission to the property in 2010 and to submit a State of Conservation ...
The Lamu Old Town, a World Heritage site on the coast of East Africa about 350 km north of Mombasa, has seen its public spaces refreshed, access improved, and pride in the city's status as the oldest ...