Lamu

Lamu's old town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site on an island off the Kenyan coast, is the oldest continually inhabited town in the country and one of the most significant Swahili settlements in the region. Reached by crossing a sea channel from the mainland, the town is largely free of motor vehicles, giving it a character unlike most Kenyan cities. The seafront Lamu Fort, completed in the early 1820s, anchors a compact centre that also holds around two dozen mosques, including the Riyadha Mosque built in 1900, and a donkey sanctuary.

• Population25,385
• Nearest water from center0.9 km
• Nearest mountain from center0.6 km
• UNESCO within 50 km1