Journey II · The coast
Pwani
Twelve nights along the old swahili coast — Lamu, Shela, the northern reefs, and a long sail down to Zanzibar.
Pwani is the coast — not just any coast, but the one that has been a coast for a thousand years. Stone houses, carved doors, the call to prayer at five in the afternoon, a language soft at the edges from all the ships that passed through it.
You arrive into Lamu on a short flight from Nairobi. A dhow meets you at the jetty. The captain is Juma, and over the next twelve nights you will be on his boat more than you expected and he will be funnier than his face suggests.
Six nights in a house in Shela with a pool that stays in shadow until noon. Mornings are for the beach at Manda Toto, for walking into Lamu town on the sand road, for a breakfast that takes two hours. Afternoons are for sleeping with the shutters half-closed. Evenings are for the swahili table, where Salma cooks.
Then we move south. A long day's sail to the reefs at Kilifi. Two nights at a small house above the creek. A final four nights in Zanzibar, divided between Stone Town and a quiet bay on the east coast, where the closing dinner is held at low tide, on the sand, with every hand from the journey in attendance.
What is included
All accommodation across Lamu, Kilifi, and Zanzibar, all domestic transfers by air and sea, a private dhow at your disposal for the twelve nights, every meal on property, a daily boatman and guide, and one open excursion in each location — a reef dive, a spice farm walk, a dinner in a private home, whatever your week calls for. Drinks on property are included.
Not included: International flights, travel insurance (required), and anything you cannot help buying in Stone Town, which is most things.
From nine thousand eight hundred · per guest
Deposit · fifty per cent · balance due T-90
Wave I opens March 2027 · by invitation