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| Kipungani Explorer practices a very relaxed dress code, even the use o f the lo cal kikois and khangas are encouraged. However, local customs and modesty of dress should be respected, especially in Lamu Town which is Islamic. Due to prevailing weather conditions Kipungani Explorer usually closes shortly after Easter in April and reopens around |
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Accommodation: Just 14 bandas or "grass villas" are well spaced along the 600 metre sea frontage and have been ingeniously positioned to ensure privacy. There are a total of 14 king sized bedded rooms. The walls and floors are made from local grass matting called mkeka and the makuti thatched roof has been pitched high enough to make the most of the cool trade winds. |
The ample bedroom has an oversized king size bed draped with mosquito netting. Each verandah, facing the ocean, is a private lounging area with local funzi beds and chairs piled high with colorful cushions. Behind the bedroom is a dressing area with a wash-hand basin and separate room for flush toilet and fresh water shower. The water is unheated, which is not a hardship when one returns hot and salty from the beach. There are no doors or windows, just wide open spaces with roll down mats which let in the air and frame the lovely views of the sand and sea. |
| Activities: Boats can be taken to Kinyika rock during the neap tides for scuba diving or go deep-sea sport fishing for marlin, sailfish or barracuda. A Dhow safari to Lamu can also be arranged for an excursion into the past. A motorized Dhow can be hired for those wishing to experience the joys of sailing in a lanteen rig around the Lamu archipelago. For the evenings, Kipungani has a selection of novels and magazines from its library for the literary minded and for the more socially inclined a wide selection of society games. |
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| A 70 square metre free-form, salt-water, deck-level swimming pool overlooks the ocean with its ingenious spill-over weir affording guests, sitting on the sunken bench in the pool, to enjoy spectacular sunset views with a seemingly never ending horizon to the sea. |
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The in -spot for leisure, sunbathing, seafood specialties and sundowner cocktails with its wonderful view over the dunes of Shela is frequently visited by both the local and foreign tourists.
Set directly at the seashore, Lamu Palace Hotel offers 22 Rooms all air-conditioned rooms |
| and is open through out the year. The hotel is famous for it's seafood-specialties and boasts a spacious terrace-restaurant. |
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| Probably the oldest hotel in Kenya. It is said to be over 165 years old and if it is true, then it's much older than Nairobi's Norfolk Hotel which opened in 1904. Percy Petley, it's eccentric creator became one of the most famous hoteliers in the world and one of the earliest pioneers of Kenya's tourist industry. Petley's Inn has a private beach on Manda Island, 10 minutes by boat. It also has a swimming pool in the compound. It is located on Lamu Island (near the Berth), direct at the sea shore near Lamu Museum.
Activities: City tour with Museum, Manda-Beach for dance and dine, sundowner, cocktails, Takwa-ruins, dhow-port Matondoni, snorkeling, diving (August-March), Island Hopping to Manda, Pate, Mombasa and Chale Island. |
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Kijani house is a small, very exclusive hotel overlooking the entrance to Shela Harbour. In its leafy garden and around the freshwater pool you will find real peace and relaxation. While the verandah of your spacious room, furnished with coastal antiques, is the ideal place place for planning exciting dhow safaris to experience the fascination of Swahili culture. Or you can work up an appetite walking along the 12km Shela beach and return to an exotic selection of sea food, swahili dishes and a touch of Italian cuisine, in the Kijani Restaurant. Welcome to the peace and the pleasures of Kijani House. Welcome to Kijani. |
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