Lamu Chapter 3: The Bat Cave

Instead of getting an extremely overpriced hotel room, some friends and I rented a house for the week in Lamu. The house was three floors and a rooftop. In Lamu most of one’s time is spent on a rooftop. The house itself was and open air house, all the floors were connected by the open stairway that lead to the roof. There were two bedrooms and a kitchen. There were of course other rooms, but a strange one-eyed man lived in them so we did not venture near. He was, (I’m sure somebody mentioned this) the house guard. The house was dark and had a new, unfinished quality, but at the same time seemed neglected and abandoned. Parts of it were clean and Spartan while others were cluttered and dusky. And there were also a surprisingly large number of bats also living in the house. So while me, my friends, a one-eyed man and about 20 bats were cohabiting, high jinks were sure to ensue. On the bottom floor was where most of the bats lived. When moving through this floor the best thing to do was to not look up and pretend they weren’t there. One gigantic mother bat lived in the thatched covering on the roof, she had a baby with her, I named her Kate. During a dinner party on said roof we discovered that bats in the roof is not an ideal decoration to a party, and they tend to leak…..