Balconies off an alley, Lamu
Lamu · 17 February 2024
Coral rag below, lime-washed plaster above, and a first-floor baraza of carved balusters with striped curtains pulled against the sun - the layering that gives Lamu's old town its texture, all of it visible at once from the bottom of one narrow alley. Makuti thatch and rusting tin share the roofline a few feet further back.
The town has been a Swahili trading settlement for the better part of a thousand years, and UNESCO listed it in 2001 as the oldest and best-preserved of them.
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