Can you imagine a place in the world, motor vehicles and other modern means of transport, people travel all rely on donkey? If you think this kind of thing only happen in hundreds of years ago ancient, it would be wrong. Really have such a mysterious place in today''''s world, people live a hundred years old house, wearing handmade clothes, riding a donkey to take to the streets. This is the ancient town of Lamu, Lamu island in northeastern Kenya.
"Urban desert to build a one meter wide alley, donkey everywhere channeling"
"Donkey Island" in modern society
"Built cities in the desert, one meter wide alley, donkey everywhere channeling", which is most visitors'''' first impression of Lamu. Lamu island has large tracts of sand dunes on the island for hundreds of years of ancient buildings are mostly built with coral stone and mangrove timber and sand. The ancient town of narrow streets, deep, and aerial, many places only enough for a sideways through.
Here, the donkey can be seen everywhere, can encounter in any alley Qizhaomaolv casual ease of local residents, who are charged with heavy loads, hard working donkey transport team, Lamu is a veritable "Donkey Island". Lamu donkey travel unrestricted, any street, as long as the space through the donkey can dash. Sometimes the donkey suddenly screamed twice, you will feel like walking into the rural countryside, away from the modern but looked up the TV satellite antenna installed on the Lamu ancient buildings, but also can not help but chuckle.The ancient town of narrow streets, deep, and aerial, many places only enough for a sideways through.
If it is not the ground, it is difficult to imagine that there is no motor vehicle to go out only the scene of the donkey. Lamu Culture Association Secretary-General Abdul Rahman told reporters in the capital of Nairobi and Kenya, other parts of the travel, live in a city where there is no motor vehicle to the local residents about these people staring, very surprised and asked how his daily travel. When he replied a day trip to rely on donkey, they shocked and could not believe this is true, did not expect such a modern society, there is such a primitive way of life.
If it is not immersive, it is difficult to imagine that there is no vehicle to go out only donkey scene
Cars and donkey election
In fact, the Island of Lamu on the coast road of relying on the beach can pass the car. The island is also only two cars, one is the Lamu Chief Commissioner of the off-road vehicles, as well as a garbage truck of Lamu sanitation sector.
But the narrow streets of ancient town which twists and turns, the passage of the "declined" motor vehicle. In order to develop a modern transport is bound to widen the road, the demolition of buildings, Lamu town has the world''''s cultural heritage is a treasure of Kiswahili culture, so the development of modern transportation is absolutely essential. In addition, the Lamu have been proud of the donkey as the locals do not want the car to replace the donkey, to change the traditional way of life continues for hundreds of years.
According to the old people speak of Lamu island, the donkey is a few hundred years ago, Arab traders brought from the Middle East Lamu island, and later on the island thrived. The island of narrow streets were no cars on display to the stage, the donkey while to load, so the donkey has become the island''''s main transport and means of transport.
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