Shela

Beyond Shela stretch five miles of beach; walk until you find the seclusion you seek.

Lamu Town, Kenya 2009

Take a five-minute boat ride to Shela, Lamu Town's smaller, more-polished neighbor where Aman boutique (Tel: 254-733-455-821) sells floaty women's clothes and updated African jewelry — don't be shy about haggling.

Lamu Town, Kenya 2009

Peponi Hotel in Shela has 34 rooms and baobab trees by the small pool.

Lamu Town, Kenya 2009

To get back to Shela, I opted for a donkey ride in the night, holding the waist of a young man who directed Lola (our donkey) with a pair of reins and a "tsk tsk tsk", along the path of a moon-bright sea, through a forest, and then into the quiet maze of the sleeping village.

Karin Luisa: Paradise in Lamu, Kenya 2009

The restaurant at Peponi Hotel in Shela is popular for its seafood.

Lamu Town, Kenya 2009

Baitil Aman Guest House in nearby Shela has eight elegant but spartan rooms in a restored 18th-century home.

Lamu Town, Kenya 2009

Gazi creek, Malindi, sand dunes at Shela and elsewhere in Lamu, flood plains, places with a high water-table, 0-300 m.

Chapter 7 1999

During abnormally rainy weather, no doubt, a good deal of this drainage forms an actual stream which goes to swell the river Shela.

Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

In fact, both the crack at Nushki and the collapse of the west side of this hill range, as well as a great portion of that deep crack in the earth's crest in which the Shela flows, have very likely been formed by the same cause.

Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

After leaving the Shela we were travelling again on the sandy _lut_, and not a blade of vegetation of any kind could be seen.

Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894