A day in Lamu
One of the best things that you can do in The Red Pepper House is to do nothing... relax and pass the time, watching the sun rise, enjoy our time to have breakfast, lunch or dinner, bathing, walking through the forest, listening to the birds, listen to the music, watch the sunset with a drink, enjoy the stars and the moon incomparable Lamu, or chat on the "circle". But if you want more activity, we will offer you a lot of ideas or visits accompanied when you need it so you don't miss anything.
Swahili Culture
Lamu Town is a point and apart in Kenya and always surprises and captivates you. Our staff will accompany you to stroll through their incredible mazes, museums, strong, historical mosques and traditional houses. Know the market and your everyday life, adorned with her colorful costume.
Crafts: Visit the workshops where they are built the traditional dhows and knows crafts with fibers llamadass Jamwi. The market Masai Shela with the typical handicrafts of the Masai warriors.
Cultural Festival of Lamu: Annually celebrated cultural festival, attended by tourists and diplomatic delegations from all over the world to watch the races, music, dance, and dance, percussion, parades, competition for Bao, poetry Swahili, the race of donkeys, the camels from Somalia, and Sudan, among other things.
Shela, a fishing village, with 12 km of white sandy beaches and large sand dunes stronghold of western with magnificent mansions-style swahili.
The ruins of the city of Takwa, visit by boat to the ruins of the FOURTEENTH century in the archipelago of Lamu were almost a bastion impenetrable with which to defend themselves against their neighbors. Only accessible at high tide, and through a deep passage, especially in a maze of channels in the mangroves, at the end of this difficulty, and an earthquake separated Takwa of local prosperity, and was gradually abandoned.
At the end of this visit, you can enjoy a stunning panoramic view of a wild beach and the Indian Ocean to climbing a dune.
In the House
In the house: you Can enjoy all the activities that will make you fall in love with Lamu.
Bird watching: Enjoy strolling and observing the great variety of birds in the farm.
Actions: you can know the beauty of the dances, music and drums of the different tribes of the area.
activity (with extra cost)
Tattoos: traditional floral and geometric motifs with hena red also called Koni and with a Peak for the tattoos black. These tattoos disappear in a few days. activity (with extra cost)
Travel in Dhow
We can enjoy the beauty of this ship of Arabic influence, used for hundreds of years of years in the swahili coast by merchants and adventurers.
Back to the island, crossing the channel by visiting Matandoni, (traditional village on the edge of the sea where they make the Dhows and crafts with fiber Jamwi, bags, baskets, rugs) Kipungani, eating the catch of the day aboard the ship or on a deserted beach. Activity (with additional cost).
Sunset with sparkling wine, wine, or whatever you want, a lovely evening watching the wonderful colors of the sunset to Lamu. Activity (with additional cost).
Sunsets
Sunset with sparkling wine, wine, or whatever you want, a lovely evening watching the wonderful colors of the sunset to Lamu.
A Drink at sunset: 5:30 p.m. the pier, the beach is become sites magical to watch the sunset in african with beautiful reflection in the water listening to the sounds of Africa. You can enjoy it with all kinds of drinks and snacks.
And... in our secret place, we will take you to a beach on the island of Manda to enjoy all the beauty of a sunset on the african continent.
Fishing
From the beach, boat or Dhow: take a traditional cane and try your luck on the channel, Trevally, King fish, and Barracuda are plentiful in the channel, you can also fish for Cod rock, marlin and Snapper Red and White. Activity (with additional cost).
Fishing on the high seas, accompanied by a crew with a great experience and a boat of 10 meters in length and equipped with VHF radio, GPS, depth sounder and all the necessary equipment for fishing. You'll be able to fish, sword fish, sailfish, black, blue, and shredded they are abundant, yellow fin tuna, dorado, wahoo, mackerel and barracuda. And by the night the Tersely giant with a world-record measurement.
Scenic Flights
One of the most spectacular flying at low altitude in a small plane on the african continent and the bay, with wonderful views of the plains, herds of buffalo, zebra. in their natural habitat. Flights on lakes filled with hippos and many other species.
Live the beauty and dimension of the country.
Magic Nights
Private dinner under the stars
Could you imagine a romantic dinner by the light of candles and oil lamps in the privacy of your Boma private or on the beach?, We will be happy to prepare it and offer an attentive service of the sultans of the period of splendor of Lamu.
Let us know in advance in order to choose the menu or barbecue, you can have dinner with the sounds of the forest and the sea, a sky filled with millions of bright stars and the famous moon of Lamu.
Dinner of the full moon
Enjoy a wonderful evening on the sand while you enjoy the beautiful full moon of Lamu, one night only.
A perfect way to end the day.
Live the beauty and dimension of the country.
