A sleepy African beach town offers calm to European expats and Arab locals. Sept. 23, 2008— -- Just south of the equator, tucked along Kenya's lush, tropical coast, a tiny island called Lamu has ...

On 31 January 2012, a report on the state of conservation for LamuOldTown was submitted by the State Party. The report addresses some issues requested by the World Heritage Committee in decision 35 ...

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There’s a boat that leaves every morning from a small island off the Kenya coast. It’s timed to the sunrise and the Indian Ocean tide. Pass the boat captain 1,000 shillings and step aboard. Against ...

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, ...

The Lamu Cultural Festival in Kenya, the arguably biggest annual event this ancient town stages, seems to be a festival in suspense at the moment, not certain how it will take place as the curfew slap ...

The wooden boats, whose triangular sails create a distinctive silhouette, are used up and down the East African coast. By Ginanne Brownell Reporting from Lamu, Kenya There’s just something about a ...

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 ...

Information about an attack by most likely Somali militants on a police post in Lamu county emerged last night from Kenya that the Mpeketoni police station was apparently overrun, weapons and vehicles ...

At its 27th session the Committee requested the Centre and ICOMOS to cooperate with the State Party to undertake a monitoring mission to Lamu, Kenya in order to ascertain the state of conservation of ...