Lamu - Coast - Kenya Accommodation to Rent

House in Lamu - Coast - Kenya

Arriving at the house via the private beach path ? you first see the welcoming pool, positioned between two mature indigenous shade trees, the outside dining pavilion and the swinging beds. A generous veranda offers an expandable seating area, which leads off the internal ground floor baraza area. A...

House in Lamu - Coast - Kenya

Grand entrance steps take you up onto an elevated terrace and into the high ceilinged, stark white central living/dining room, simply designed in the Swahili style with traditional plasterwork and wooden beams, with a magnificent locally crafted dining table that can easily seat 16 people. The livin...

House in Lamu - Coast - Kenya

Designed to offer cool, comfortable accommodation for honeymooners, couples or single travellers ? each banda has its own bathroom and mini-terrace: some made entirely of palm thatch, others with coral foundations. Sited on a raised sand dune at the center of Kizingoni Beach, the BANDAS share a f...

House in Lamu - Coast - Kenya

It is named after the northerly monsoon wind which blows in the summer months, and which for thousands of years carried dhows to Lamu from India and Arabia, laden with treasure for trade. Kaskazi is imaginatively designed and sits back from the beach with wonderful sea views and is surrounded by lan...

House in Lamu - Coast - Kenya

Built in a U shape around the pool and gardens, the house offers exceptionally spacious public areas and large terraces. It is tastefully furnished with antique wooden chests, teak dining tables, Lamu tiled 4-poster beds and bright kikoy safari chairs. Five well ventilated ensuite bedrooms offer...

House in Lamu - Coast - Kenya

A secluded hideaway, nestled on the beach, it is protected from the outside world by its ochre walls, which offer complete privacy to its visitors. The grassed, frangipani-studded walled garden frames a large freshwater swimming pool, which forms the heart of the Kusini house experience and has bee...

House in Lamu - Coast - Kenya

Soft yellow walls, colourful shrubs and tall coconut palms around the central pool courtyard, allow complete privacy and security, while the three elevated communal areas ? the breakfast roof, sundowner baraza and main dining terrace ? provide huge views of the ocean, the beach and the passing dhows...

House in Lamu - Coast - Kenya

Stands right on the edge of the Indian Ocean in a large garden of frangipani, fruit trees and shrubs. From the expansive, first floor makuti-covered veranda you can watch the dhows come and go, collecting sand and delivering coral blocks and fish. The house is built of coral block, plastered in the...