Watamu

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Watamu suahili language means "sweet people." It is a tourist village on the coast "Turtle Bay", the Indian Ocean situated about 25 km south of Malindi in Kenya.

Watamu village essentially a Swahili (or Bajuni) fishing village that has grown into a small beach resort over the years.
The village has several small supermarkets, grocers and the usual Kenyan style Dukas where you can buy all the supplies you need. There are also a number of curio and souvenir dealers, a butchery, fishmongers, a bureau de change,a post office, two doctors' clinics, a western hairdresser and several roadside eateries.

There are many projects in the pipeline or being implemented. In 2000, the Watamu Association became a founder member of KARA (the Kenya Alliance of Residence Associations).

Watamu is a place to be proud of. We have a Marine Park (the first in the country established in 1968), a Marine Reserve, encompassing Mida Creek and extending up to the Malindi Marine Park. The Arabuko Sokoke Forest, (420 sq kms) is the largest indigenous coastal forest remaining in East Africa, a variety of ancient monument sites including Gede ruins. This whole area has been declared a UN Biosphere Reserve of which there are relatively few in the world.

Watamu | Watamu suahili language means "sweet people." It is a tourist village on the coast "Turtle Bay", the Indian Ocean situated about 25 km south of Malindi in Kenya.

Watamu village essentially a Swahili (or Bajuni) fishing village that has grown into a small beach resort over the years

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