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Kenya,Lamu Island,Shela. A group of Muslim women and an old man wait for a ferry boat at Shela pier.
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Kenya,Lamu Island,Lamu. A Muslim woman of Lamu town wearing a buibui or face veil but dressed in an attractively decorated black dress.
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Narrow alley, Old Town, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Lamu Island, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Kenya. A Lamu woman in fashionable Muslim dress watches the procession to mark Maulidi, from an elevated archway.
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Kenya,Lamu Island,Lamu. A Muslim woman of Lamu town elegantly dressed in a buibui or face veil.
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Kenya,Lamu Island,Lamu. A Muslim woman of Lamu town wearing a buibui or face veil but dressed in an attractive embroidered black dress.
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Kenya,Lamu Island,Lamu. A Muslim woman of Lamu town wearing a buibui or face veil with a brightly decorated wrap to offset her black dress.
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A group of Lamu women wearing traditional Islamic dress and face veils gather for a festive occasion.Situated 150 miles north northeast of Mombasa, Lamu town dates from the 15th century AD.
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Kenya. Women from Lamu watch excitedly as Mashua sailing boats participate in a race off Lamu Island.
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Kenya. A man in Lamu makes a call from an attractive archway during the procession to mark Maulidi.
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Lamu women are expert in intricate hand and body designs using henna and other dyes. Here, a woman with finely decorated hands and arms carefully paints elaborate designs on the hands of her friend in preparation for a wedding. Henna stains skin an orange red hue and its thick brownish paste must not be removed for at least an hour after application.
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Muslim women with face veils walk along one of the many busy, narrow streets of Lamu town.Situated 150 miles north northeast of Mombasa, Lamu town dates from the 15th century AD. The islands importance lies in the fact that it has the only certain source of sweet groundwater in the entire district.
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Lamu women are expert in intricate hand and body designs using henna and other dyes. Here, a woman with finely decorated hands and arms carefully paints elaborate designs on the hands of her friend in preparation for a wedding. Henna stains skin an orange red hue and its thick brownish paste must not be removed for at least an hour after application.
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The eyes of a Lamu woman wearing a traditional black Islamic dress and face veil.Situated 150 miles north northeast of Mombasa, Lamu town dates from the 15th century AD. The islands importance lies in the fact that it has the only certain source of sweet groundwater in the entire district.
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Kenya. One of Lamu s maze of narrow streets. Hand carts or donkeys are the sole means of transport.
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A Swahili woman in Lamu makes makuti, a coconut palm thatch used extensively as a roofing material on houses all along the East African Coast.Situated 150 miles north northeast of Mombasa, Lamu town dates from the 15th century AD.
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A Swahili woman dressed in black to signify her Muslim faith walks through the narrow streets of Lamu town. Situated 150 miles north northeast of Mombasa, Lamu town dates from the 15th century AD. The islands importance lies in the fact that it has the only certain source of sweet groundwater in the entire district.
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A Swahili woman dressed in black to signify her Muslim faith walks through the narrow streets of Lamu town. Situated 150 miles north northeast of Mombasa, Lamu town dates from the 15th century AD. The islands importance lies in the fact that it has the only certain source of sweet groundwater in the entire district.
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A Lamu woman wearing a traditional black Islamic dress and face veil.Situated 150 miles north northeast of Mombasa, Lamu town dates from the 15th century AD. The islands importance lies in the fact that it has the only certain source of sweet groundwater in the entire district.
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Kenya,Lamu Island,Shela. A Muslim woman with a face veil wearing a brightly coloured wrap.
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A narrow street in Lamus historic island old town. Most of the buildings standing today were built in the nineteenth century when the island entered its most prosperous period.However, the arrival of Arabs from Oman took place several hundred years earlier and resulted in the development of thriving island states off the East African Coast.
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Kenya. One of Lamu s maze of narrow streets. Hand carts or donkeys are the sole means of transport.
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Lamu women are expert in intricate hand and body designs using henna and other dyes. Here a practitioner with ten years experience decorates the hands and arms of a client with elaborate designs. Situated 150 miles north northeast of Mombasa, Lamu town dates from the 15th century AD.
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One of the narrow shopping streets in Lamu town. Situated 150 miles north northeast of Mombasa, Lamu town dates from the 15th century AD. The islands importance lies in the fact that it has the only certain source of sweet groundwater in the entire district.The town was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2001 because it is the oldest and best preserved Swahili settlement in East Africa.
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Kenya. One of Lamu s maze of narrow streets. Hand carts or donkeys are the sole means of transport.
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Kenya. Completed around 1821, Lamu s massive ancient fort dominates a busy street to its rear.
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