Walk through the streets of Lamu’s Old Town and you’d be hard pushed to find a taxi. In fact, cars are banned for the general public. The East African island, perched placidly off Kenya’s coast, is ...

With its glorious old town, "spectacular" beaches and "laid-back" atmosphere, the Kenyan island of Lamu is one of the world's most bewitching places. I first visited as a "scruffy backpacker" in 1992, ...

THE VOYAGE TO LAMU, an exotic island off the east coast of Africa, unfolds like an opium dream. After flying to Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, I took a propeller plane to a tiny airstrip set among ...

The Centre received information from the National Museums of Kenya of the uncontrolled plans to construct houses and hotels on the island of Lamu likely to affect the authenticity and the integrity of ...

Not far from the coast of Kenya in the iridescent Indian Ocean lies an island called Lamu, very much the same as it was a thousand years ago. Since time out of mind, Lamu has been a bustling entrépot ...

Peponi Hotel has been Shela’s main hotel and watering hole since around the same time. It was established in 1967 and soon made famous by stories of Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall lounging on its veranda ...

LOUNGING ON CUSHIONS in the prow of a sturdy wooden dhow as it glides in total silence through the mangrove-edged creeks opposite the island of Lamu, the spoilt Western visitor, freed from two years ...

The idyllic Lamu Island is bubbling with life as close to 400 Yoga enthusiasts landed there for a week-long festival that kicked off on Monday. It run up to March 22nd, 2019. Organisers of this year’s ...