ARCHIVIO 06/2017

PERSONS

Anna, the sweetest smile of Watamu

Since 2006 the italian art of paistry and icecream in Kenya

29-06-2017 di redazione

It might seem like a quirk, but when the first Arab fishermen a few centuries ago called the small village near Malindi, "Watu Tamu", or "Place of Sweet People" (then contracted in Watamu), they could not imagine that sweetness which it referred to would become a trademark of the future tourist resort.
 

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MAL D'AFRIQUE

27-06-2017 di Angela

My Mal d'Afrique has a name, Watamu.
I know little about the Black Continent, I visited Tsavo National Park and Amboseli Reserve, watched the Victoria Falls in Zambia and I volunteered for two weeks in Uganda.
 

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NEWS

Watamu, why international students love it

Undergraduates come here for stages and fun

23-06-2017 di redazione

Watamu is not only a paradise for tourists and for those who fall in love with Africa and then returns, but also a "field of exploration" for many young people from all over the world.
Especially its ecosystem is of interest to the schools and university groups of Europe and America. In recent months, schools from Belgium, the United States and Austria have joined Kenyan and African schools and British universities in discovering the wonders of nature that the Watamu area boasts of, so diverse but so close to each other.

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NEWS

A singular catch in Watamu, the Bowhead Guitarfish

A preistorical ray taken by scientists of West Indian Ocean Association

15-06-2017 di redazione

Thanks to the photograph of a marine scientist, Michael Gilbert, on Watamu's beach, it was possible to classify the incredible fish that were finished in the local fishermen network, which are not usual to capture such specimens of the genre.
It's a "Bowhead Guitarfish" of the breed family.
Guitar fish, we could call it. In the Latin classification it is part of the Rhinobatidae family.

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TOURISM

Watamu, not only holidays

With vacation requests, real estate also comes in handy

07-06-2017 di redazione

The sale of Watamu for next season and in general as a holiday home, second home and also possible paradise where to start a new life, moves to Italy. In the Old Continent, negotiations for the purchase of houses, villas and apartments are under way, which, after a noticeable decline in recent years and a slow recovery last year, had a significant rise in the season just ended.

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