Ram is located in northeastern Kenya in Africa in the Indian Ocean tropical island ALICE been called the most beautiful places in the world, and also early to be included in the World Heritage List. The famous Bill Gates in order to better appreciate the sunrise and sunset of the Ram in Ram island opposite the African continent to buy the land and built a villa. The local African pipe Ram island called paradise (paradise).

Early in the morning, the donkey walk from the beach

For many people, LAMU (Ram) are distant and unknown mystery island has become a temptation. It is called "masked Africa, the island has a rich Islamic customs, the ancient city of Ram is the most representative of Kenya and the whole East African history, the cradle of Kiswahili culture. And donkey island said, has the most beautiful sunsets and tropical island style.
Ram Island, where?
Zheng He landed the East African island
Take a small plane from Nairobi to Ram Island to be nearly two hours, in the final minutes of flight, blue bay, forest green and white buildings woven into an elegant and extremely picture at our feet, regardless of the Blue green, white, as are a thorough, pure, sparkling colors, beautiful people dizzy.

Sea breeze coconut Ram Island in the shadow

Small Lahm Airport, we rode the Arabs have been handed down of the dhow (locally called dhow) to Ram Island the Kijani hotel to pick our Islamic guy Abdullah smiled and told us: 600 years ago, Zheng He came to Kenya, the first landing place is the Ram island. Ram museum display the centuries, the Chinese porcelain, textiles, spot, or even a manual pasta machine. The local fishermen repeatedly salvaged from the waters of the Ram near intact ancient porcelain and pottery, some inscribed with Chinese characters, some printed with dragon motifs, suggesting that these things must come from China.
It was reported that many Chinese sailors due to ship damage had settled here, a pate of Ram Island, opposite the island, there is a Shanghai village, village, most of the village which retains the lineage of the Chinese people. Ram Island, Ram Islands, one of the most densely populated island, there are 17,000 people, 99 percent Muslim, the reason for the population in this set, because the only Ram Island to play salty groundwater.

 

The beautiful of the dhow

Into the Ram Island, the moment I can not help but suspect that here in East Africa? The white walls of the buildings around a thin narrow streets, dressed in a black robe himself wrapped meticulous woman, wearing the hats of the men of Islam, coming and going around a donkey laden with bags, beach static static mooring with the vicissitudes of life and a strong sense of dhow wooden boat. Ram is a completely medieval Islamic world, no wonder the Ram, the ancient city of 2001 World Cultural Heritage.
Ram Island history?
It has had a splendid history
Ram Island is about more than 20 square kilometers, 12 miles long coastline. From the 9th century AD, Arabs began to settle in as Kenya''''s oldest living town, where history is just like its winding lanes of the medieval Stone generally mysterious and fascinating.
Ram ancient town was built in about the 12th century, work together to build by the local Bantu and foreign businessmen, businessmen from the Arabian Peninsula, and some from the Persian Gulf and the Far East. This new towns assume the middleman role of the inland and maritime, exporting ivory, wood, internal import of industrial products such as clothes, ceramics, spices, quickly jump up from the independent city-states of the East African coast in the 13th century.