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Exhibition" (a little more off the beaten path, but fun to find in the
labyrinth of narrow streets--they have posters all over town with a map
to the workshop."
~ Kristen
Photo of Shirt Above: It is strange the type of shirts you
will find in most out of the way places!
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There are some excellent
furniture stores in Lama - the best one I found was south of town on the
harbor front road (at the very end of the water front). Some of the
dealers employ craftsman who literally spend days crafting and carving
huge ornate wooden doors which are shipped to coastal cities in the
south such as Mombassa and then wind up gracing the front of opulent
homes. I purchased a slat chair which had an intricately woven mesh as
the back support - I ended up lugging this for 35 days around Africa
before I flew home! One furniture store showed me their workshop in the
back and the owner told me the process of how the doors and and other
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The following web site in New York sells Lamu made furniture. The owner
of this site splits his time between Lamu and New York.
There is an
Internet Cafe open near the water front. The hours were
limited and the connections were quite slow when we visited.
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