Kenya: at the end of Rahm Island Africa Mysterious Island

Rahm is located inAfricaKenyaThe NortheastIndiaOcean on the tropical island tour pal, has been called the most beautiful places in the world, also very early to be included in the world heritage list. The famous Bill Gates in order to better appreciate Rahm's sunrise and sunset, in the Rahm island across the continent of Africa bought land, built a villa. The local African Rahm island called Paradise (heaven).

Early in the morning, people from the sea through the donkey

For many people, LAMU (Rahm) is a distant and unknown, mysterious island became a temptation. It is called "the masked Africa", the island has a strong Islamic style, the ancient city of Rahm is the most representative of Kenya and the East African history place, is the birthplace of Vasily culture. It has a donkey Island, is the most beautiful sunset and tropical island amorous feelings.

Rahm island in where?

It is Zheng landing East Island

FromNairobiA small plane to Rahm island to nearly 2 hours, in the last few minutes, the blue bay, green jungle and white buildings, woven into a Qingli incomparable pictures on our feet, regardless of blue, green, white is such a clear, pure, glittering the luminous color, beautiful people get dizzy.

Sea breeze, coconut shadows on Rahm Island

From little Rahm out of the airport, we take the Arab dhow handed down (locally known as dhow) to Rahm Island, Kijani hotel to pick our Islamic guy Abdullah laughed and told us: 600 years ago, Zheng He's voyages to Kenya, the first landing place is Rahm island. Rahm is now the museum also displays since centuries of Chinese porcelain, textile, position, or even manual noodle machine. Local fishermen repeatedly from Rahm near the sea salvage intact ancient porcelain and pottery, some engraved with Chinese characters, some with dragon pattern, show that these things must come from china.

It is said that many Chinese Seaman because of the damage to settle here, now a Patai island Rahm island on the have a callShanghaiThe village, the village most retains the Chinese lineage. Rahm island is an island in the Rahm archipelago's most densely populated, there are 17000 people, 99% are Muslim, the population in this concentration, because only Rahm island to play not salty groundwater.

The beautiful dhow

I can't help but wonder at Rahm island of that a moment, here is the east? Many of the white walls of a thin narrow alleys, dressed in a black robe wrapped themselves must be strict in one's demands of women, wearing a hat man, coming and going around with bags of the donkey, the beach quietly moored vicissitudes of life and color dhow wooden ship. Rahm is a medieval Islamic world, no wonder Rahm city in 2001 by the income of the world cultural heritage.

What is the history of Rahm island?

It has a splendid history

Rahm island is about 20 square kilometers, a coastline of 12 miles. The ninth Century ad Arabs began to settle here, as the oldest living in towns of Kenya, here history as its Medieval Stone Town winding alleys magical.

Rahm town was built in about AD twelfth Century, by the local Bantu and foreign merchants together to create business, some from Arabia, some from the Persian Gulf and the far east. This new town take intermediate inland and maritime role, exporting ivory, wood, ceramics, clothing, to import spices and other industrial products, quickly in thirteenth Century in the East African coast independent city-state up.