Lamu Travel Guide

Lamu is the land that time forgot, and definitely a place to be "off the grid." However, those seeking the calm coastal life be warned: you cannot arrive without being approached by a throng of "guides" offering their services, which can be annoying to those wanting to be left alone. Frankly you just have to find one that you feel comfortable with and accept their offer because you can't do anything in Lamu without a guide. They will become your best friends, and are indispensible in figuring out how things work in Lamu. They will organise day trips, dhow boat rides, tours of historic ruins, snorkelling/diving, and partying in local hotels (even if they are not permitted to enter the premises)... they will even leave you alone when instructed to do so. Bring a sarong, and a hat, and try to rent a house with a rooftop terrace / bedroom.

Lamu is absolutly an amazing little nice wild place! You can get there practicly only by a small plane landing in a short dirty road than sail to the village that's over the sea. If you like the paces where there is no energy, no fridges, no ice, no hospital, ho hotels, NO CARS, no turists, nothing but old walls and nature with some mens than you'll simply LOVE it! What to do there?...nothing but walk around and enjoy the absence of modern life... I've been there my first time when I was 12 with my grandpa and we had absolutly no problems so I beleave it's a safe place where to go. Yust logically respect their traditions. The sea is not nice to swim. The food is fine. Pay atteantion to the water you drink. To sleep look for local accomodations. I've been in the Lamu Hause...I really suggest it! It's WONDERFUL!

In Lamu you can ask local fishers to bring you fishing in their sailing boats...You'll stay all day long with them, they will bring you in wonderful, desert, very small islands and they will cook for you on the beach the fish you catched together....A wonderful experience!!