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Tourism
Tourism

Lamu UNESCO Site, Source: Wanyama Ogutu

him alert throughout the long night journey.
Then pulled out her hijab and smiled at me. I “Twapita Garissa?” (Are we taking the

also smile back, victoriously, we are friends Garissa route?) I expressed my curiosity
now. about encountering al-Shabaab along the
way. Yusufu turned to me with an amused
“Yusufu, twende sasa! (Let’s go now!), look revealing his rotten teeth and the green

shouted the conductor. I then knew our stains. He controlled the bus steering wheel
driver’s name. He honked the horn loudly with one elbow while using the other hand
and pressed the accelerator. We began our to pluck leaves from the gearbox, break
journey to Lamu Island. Yusufu stuffed his open groundnuts on the dashboard, and

mouth with chewed leaves and stems like then toss the concoction into his mouth. We
a goat. Next to his side mirror was a bottle sped past famous buses like Pwani Express,
of Coca-Cola and water. He placed a bag of Mombasa Raha, and Mandera Kwetu, and
chewed leaves and stems concoction next a large cargo truck in the distance. At one

to the gearbox. I guess the concoction kept point, Yusufu would extend his index finger

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