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| Boat to Manda |
A few weeks ago, I took a day trip to visit Takwa ruins on
neighboring Manda Island.
The ruins are fairly well preserved, and you can even see the beautiful
original tiles in the foot baths outside of what remains of the large mosque
inside the city walls. The city
was abandoned when the wells turned salty and the inhabitants faced attacks
from the people of Pate island.
They abandoned the settlement and moved across to Shela village, where
they remain today (though Shela is now about 30 percent immigrants, another
story for another day). I didn’t
take too many pictures because, well, ruins sort of don’t photograph too
well.
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| Big Baobab |
On the way back we cooked fish in the boat and then escaped
a rainstorm to eat in the once-popular but still very cool floating bar between
Lamu and Shela. It was a lovely
day!
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