摘要
Arrival at Manda Airport,the starting point for Kenya’s Lamu Island,is a fun and furry one.A cluster of pastel tin shelters bake silently in the sun.Cheery hand-painted signs indicate these are the open-air waiting rooms and refreshment stand.The passengers from the 12-seat plane we arrived on begin to look around and chuckle-there appear to be no people manning the booths,just sleepy cats.After zipping across the sparkling water in a‘banana boat’to Lamu Old Town,it is noticeable that the feline population is not just an airport oddity.Cats languishing under trees,doorways,every nook and cranny really,have become part of Lamu’s identity as much as donkeys-the island’s only option for land transportation other than your own two feet.
