A few foreigners bob over the bay on sightseeing trips aboard traditional wooden dhows.

A few sea birds flew overhead and a wooden dhow drifted lazily a few hundred yards away.

Here I lingered, where hundreds of colourful, wooden dhows still load and unload their cargo, presenting an incongruous and moving sight in the middle of the gleaming glass-and-metal city.

Weathered wooden dhows bobbed on weed-choked lines.

For the wooden dhows that are so common in Kenya and that lack radio communication, the looming danger was spread by word of mouth.

A Map For a traditional experience, book a table on this old wooden dhow cheerfully decorated with bands of twinkling lights and operated by the Radisson Blu Hotel.

The Iranian captains who sail wooden dhows to Kuwait have been unloading more than fish and watermelons in recent weeks.

It has marinas with luxury yachts and beautiful old style wooden dhows.

Maritime activity was limited to the import of essential items, mainly from India by old-style wooden dhows.

Belo sur mer is well known for its boatbuilders of traditional wooden dhows.