Lamu Cultural Festival – Kenya
The Lamu Cultural Festival in Kenya is truly what it says it is – a celebration of culture. According to its organizers, the week-long festival in November includes activities such as swimming and dhow sailing, a traditional slow sailing practice. Several competitions and races are staged during the festival, including traditional Swahili poetry, Henna painting, and Bao competition. Bao is considered the oldest known game in human history, historians suggest the game has been played throughout Africa and the Middle East for thousands of years. In all, the Lamu festival is truly an opportunity for respite.
