FOR all its paradisal waters, golden dunes and swanky “eco-lodges”, life in Kenya's coastal district of Kiunga, just a few miles from the border with Somalia, is hard.
The Yakou beach on the right side of the typhoon track was rather stable, with only a slight silting in the belt of middle tide besides erodedm manmade dunes in the landward backshore.
It receives its name from the echoing Shhhh that the sand makes as you step on its surface.Visitors here can try camel rides, can parasail, can slide the dunes or simply build sand castles.