Featured Walking Mida Creek at low tide
The channels open up. The mangrove crabs come out. The whole creek system reveals itself, briefly, between tides — and a guide who knows it makes the difference between a walk and a lesson.
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Stories, guides, and dispatches from the Kenyan coast.
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The hush at Gedi
A 13th-century Swahili town, abandoned, swallowed by the forest. The fig trees have grown into the stone. The site keeps its quiet — and rewards the visitor who arrives without a crowd.
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The blue safari, explained
A day on a wooden dhow — open water, snorkelling stops, lunch on a sandbank that appears at low tide and is gone again by dusk. The oldest form of travel still on offer here.
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