Watamu s timeless allure
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New discovery shows luxurious lifestyles of the Gede inhabitants
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Gede ruins: Inside once thriving city
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The mysterious ruins in Kenya where spirits allegedly reside
Anjaly Thomas
Neat paths inside the ruins
Trees going through the ruins
The Pillar Tomb
Skeletal remains of a whale
When I arrived in Kenya’s coastal town of Malindi, I had one agenda to explore Kenya’s own Little Italy.
Malindi with its 15th century pillar tombs and a thatched 16th century Portuguese chapel was paradise after weeks of rolling about in the African bush.
When cracking a crab shell by the sea one evening, I heard of Gede from the waiter trying to help me with it as Dean Martin’s That’s Amore played in the background. “These crabs, they are very old. Their shells are like stones,” he said as if revealing a secret. “But you know what is older than crab? Gede.”