Lamu or
Lamu Town is a small town on
Lamu Island, which in turn is a part of the
Lamu Archipelago in Kenya. Situated by road northeast of
Mombasa that ends at Mokowe Jetty from where the sea channel has to be crossed to reach Lamu Island. It is the headquarters of
Lamu County and a
UNESCO World Heritage site. Lamu is Kenya's oldest continually inhabited town, and was one of the original
Swahili settlements along coastal East Africa, founded in 1370.