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Reasons To Visit Lamu, Kenya – I Fell in Love with the Island!

Lamu is as beautiful in real life as it looks in the photos I had seen before visiting, it’s truly Kenya’s best-kept secret.

It’s easy to fall in love with Lamu! It’s a picture-perfect Swahili town with an old-world charm, where donkeys run the show because there is no car on the island. 

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