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way2blue
Exploring Lamu Town, continues. Second set of photos from our day wandering through the narrow lanes of Lamu Town with a guide.
I’m guessing these guys are building a dhow, but you could easily convince they are building anything. Note the motorcycle (piki piki).
No cars and only a handful of piki pikis (motorcycles) servicing the waterfront. Transportation and heavy work are done with donkeys. Dr. Elisabeth Svendsen of ‘The Donkey Sanctuary’ in England, concerned about the condition of some of the ~3000 donkeys on the island, opened a donkey sanctuary in Lamu Town in 1987. The Sanctuary provides treatment to all donkeys free of charge.
A view of Lamu Town away from the grand homes.
Another view of Lamu Town away from the grand homes. Tidy even if patched together.
And another backstreet vista.
Last one.
We stopped in at ‘Slim Silver Smith’. Didn’t buy any silver, but did buy a pendant repurposed from broken colonial pottery.
Mr Goat asking ‘what’s up’…
Baud
Wassup, Mr. Goat.
OzarkHillbilly
I think I could easily get lost in Lamu Town for days at a time and never be bored.
oldster
Looks like this is not their first time building one of these, and they’ve got plenty of know-dhow.
BretH
Thanks for the offbeat photos and stories!
Betty
Nice that the guide gave you such a thorough tour and not just to the pretty places.
Yutsano
Pardon me, but you’re showing your ass. :P
This place just looks like fun!
way2blue
@oldster:
You made me also spit out my coffee…
way2blue
@BretH:
Lamu is not a place I would have sought out on my own, but our Tsavo trek ended with one night on the island. And we added another 4 nights. Because, why not?