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      <image:title>Lamu Town - Lamu is a busy yet peaceful Swahili town of about 20.000 inhabitants, and the oldest and best preserved Swahili settlement on the East African coast.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Lamu is a very safe place, too. The events that occurred in 2014 are isolated incidents that happened on the mainland in a non-touristic area. The Old Town is of great historical interest, with large houses built of coral rag-ston plastered with lime. The outside of these buildings may not be so special - it is the hand-carved beautiful Lamu doors that are impressive. No cars are allowed on the island : only wooden wheeled carts and many donkeys can pass through the narrow streets. In the year 2001 Lamu Old Town was chosen one of the new sites of Unesco's World Cultural Heritage List.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Lamu Town - Lamu inhabitants love to celebrate and Lamu’s weddings are famous for being extravagant and costly. Muslim holidays (more below) leave much space to joy - even during election time there is a lot of poetry, drumming and free Swahili food.</image:title>
      <image:caption>A note on the weather : the rainy season starts at the end of April and goes on until the end of May. June is considered a "cold" month and tourism picks up again in July. In short, our European summertime is the so called Kenyan winter time. High season goes through the months of December, January and February. Temperature then stays around 30-33 degrees C (27 in the ocean).</image:caption>
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      <image:title>History - In 1895, the British took control over the Kenyan coast. Slavery was banished from the island and the East African Railway was built from Mombasa to Lake Victoria. Mombasa became the principal port for all of East Africa. An economic decline followed, and people moved to Mombasa in search for better fortune. Trade declined rapidly in Lamu. Today we can no longer greet the old sailing ships anchoring up outside town sailing south with the North east monsoon winds, bringing spices and silk and returning north towards the Middle East in March, after loading huge piles of Lamu mangrove poles. However, even in the midst of economic decline the old Swahili structure has been well preserved, and the early 1970's tourism has helped revitalize Lamu's economy. Here on the left, a beautifully carved door in Pate island.</image:title>
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      <image:title>History - Lamu is Kenya’s oldest living town, and one of the original Swahili settlements along coastal East Africa - it is believed to have been established circa 1370AC. Today, the majority of Lamu's population is Muslim.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Lamu like the other East African coastal cities was already established by traders from Oman in the tenth and eleventh centuries. In the 14th century Lamu was an important trade center colonized by the arabs. Portuguese traders came and went. At the beginning of the 1800 Omanis settled in Zanzibar and reasserted Omani authority in the area under the Sultan. The Lamu Fort (here on the right) was built around 1810 and the governor (Liwali) had his residence built right behind it at about the same time (Subira House today!). Lamu is the cradle of Swahili poetry. Intermarriage and the introduction of Islam produced the Swahili culture, after the Arabic word sahil, for coast. There is a treasure of oral poetry originating from the neighbouring islands - poetry is still remembered and much read and appears in everyday life. Older settlements have been traced on the Island of Manda, at Taqua Ruins -easy to visit by motorboat at high tide and in the villages of Pate Island, North of Lamu.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>History - Pate Island is biggest island of the Lamu Archipelago and it is almost completely surrounded by mangroves. Its main towns are Faza, Pate Town and Siyu. Like much of the Swahili Coast, Pate's history was marked by a steady transition from agricultural communities in the early first millennium into a specialized, urban trading society around the 10th century. As Lamu, Pate was frequented by trading Arabs, Persians, Indians, and others. It was the centre of the Pate sultanate from the 13th–19th centuries. The Swahili port of Pate long fought with Lamu and Takwa on Manda Island for economic dominance of the area. It was eventally conquered by Lamu in the late 19th century. View of the Siyu Fort, and below, more pictures of Pate.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Activities - To visit : the Lamu Museum, the Lamu Fort, the Swahili House Museum, Anidan NGO (Childrens Shelter &amp; Pediatric Hospital) , the Donkey Sanctuary, the FlipFlopi recycling project, the Takwa ruins. Finally, a day trip to our Shamba (farm) where we practice Permaculture in the interiors of Lamu ! To learn about : Swahili cooking, basic Arabic calligraphy and Islamic studies. Please ask us for contacts ! To have: Henna painting done on your body ! To do : Dhow lunch and sailing in the Channel, to Manda Toto or to the Kizingoni beach, Swimming with the Whale sharks , Snorkelling To see : Tortoise hatching To eat : Two coffee shops in town; Whispers Café and La Dulce Toro Cafe, Lamu House for its bar and restaurant (Moonrise), Mangrove Restaurant, Seafront Café or Sailor’s Joint for a fresh fish lunch. In Shela, Farasha Healthy Snacks Cafe and the iconic terrace of the Peponi Hotel for exquisite lunches and dinners. In Kizongoni, the eco lodge Kizingo !</image:title>
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      <image:caption>We serve breakfast in our first floor airy gallery between 7 and 10am. External guests can join upon reservation for 700KSH per person. Bread, yogurt, jams, peanut butter and juices are all made in our tourquoise kitchen!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Subira’s enchanting central courtyard is the space where our dinners unfold : our cook Youssef is a real master of cuisine ! We are open to external guests upon reservation. Please book before 10am for either same day lunch (1200KES per person for a 2 course meal beverages excluded) or dinner (1800KES per person for a 3 course meal beverages excluded).</image:caption>
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