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Kili Villa

Arusha

Day 1: Arusha

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Kili Villa is located on a private golf and wildlife estate and offer a relaxing start or end to a safari in Tanzania. Located just outside Arusha, which is the gateway to some of Tanzania's best National Parks, Kili Villa also boasts access to Tanzania’s only 18 hole championship golf course. The property is located only 45 minutes from Arusha and Kilimanjaro International Airport, and within 15 minutes of the Arusha National Park.

There is plenty to do here - head off for a round of golf, take a tour of a fragrant coffee plantation in Arusha or work up a sweat hiking and canoeing around Kilimanjaro and Lake Duluti.

Whether you are a complete beginner or an advanced rider, there is also an opportunity to enjoy a horse ride. Those with little riding experience can enjoy a gentle hack along dusty tracks where wildebeest and antelopes graze contentedly. Led by experienced guides, you can explore the meandering paths, spotting a rich array of wildlife along your way. Regularly seen is one of the most elegant mammals found in Tanzania, the gerenuk. The morning rides departs at 08:00 and the afternoon rides departs at 14:30, usually lasting around 2 hours. Riding times are flexible, however these are the best hours of the day to be out in the bush on horseback.

Kili Villa presents a range of accommodation options from 3 exclusive use villas to individually bookable luxury rooms in either of the Golf Safari House or The Lodge.

The 3 exclusive use villas have over 600m2 of living space, are individually styled, have private pools, are fully catered with full time chef and housekeeper and sleep up to 12 in a combination of en-suite double and twin rooms. Each villa is distinctively decorated to showcase the best of local African design and craftsmanship combined with colonial style furniture.

The Golf Safari House features 10 en-suite double or twin room. It features a private swimming pool, numerous leisure areas and dining space choices, and offers a full catering service. The Lodge is more intimate, featuring just 4 en-suite rooms and its own pool.

Example Details For Kili Villa

Nights: 1 Night
Adults: 2 Children: 0
Room: 1 x Villa Room
Includes: Breakfast is included. Half Board and Full Board rates are available on request.
 
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Rooms may normally be occupied from 12:00 on the day of arrival, and must normally please be vacated by 10:00 on the day of departure for the convenience of arriving guests.

General Information For Guests

Children of any age are welcome.

The ground level of The Golf Safari House consists of 4 downstairs bedrooms, one family bedroom and a twin room. There are also 2 upstairs bedrooms and 2 garden rooms. The hotel has 3 terraces, a swimming pool in the courtyard, and a garden fire pit. Room amenities include hairdryers, and swimming pool towels. One room has a refrigerator and kitchenette.

Villa Kudu has a master bedroom, a triple room and a double room. The villa also has a private terrace.

Villa Tembo Mtoni has 2 downstairs bedrooms (a master bedroom and a twin). There are 3 bedrooms upstairs, including a honeymoon suite. The villa also has 3 terraces.

Villa Agame Pacha has 2 downstairs bedrooms and 3 upstairs bedrooms. The villas has a private dining room, sitting area (both with their own fireplace) and 3 terraces.

The Lodge villa has a family room consisting of one mater and a triple room. In addition, there is also another triple room and a twin room. The villa has a large dining/sitting room, a separate sitting room with a fireplace, and 5 terraces for private dining.

All of the villa rooms are en-suite with a bath and shower.  Each villa has a private swimming in a garden courtyard and a garden firepit.

All of the villas have their own chef and housekeepers. The bedrooms all have mosquito nets, a fan, charging facilities, in-room safe and a desk. The rooms are serviced both in the morning and in the evening for turn down.

Guests can enjoy breakfast, lunch, tea and dinners in an assortment of locations ranging from the main dining room to the terrace, poolside and even bush dinners.

Activities that are available include horse riding, golf, tennis, canoeing trips and cultural excursions (additional cost).

Free Wi-Fi is provided in the hotel rooms and villas.

A laundry service is also available (additional cost).

Credit cards are accepted.

Chada Katavi

Katavi National Park

Days 2 - 5: Katavi National Park

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Katavi National Park in the far west of Tanzania is somewhere that even today, few people have been lucky enough to visit.  Perhaps because of this, it feels untouched, almost like travelling back in time. The Park is made up of a series of wide flood plains, blond with waist high grass in the early dry season, green and flooded like a mini Okavango after the rains. 

Connecting the main flood plains is a network of seasonal rivers, and it is these rivers that form the focus of the game viewing for which Katavi is renowned during the dry season. As the water becomes scarce, hippos in their hundreds cram into the remaining pools, crocodiles retire to caves in the mud walls of the river banks, and buffalo and elephant are drawn to the rivers to drink - watched by the ever present predators such as lion and hyena.

Chada Katavi is stylish and wonderfully comfortable, and is open from June to November every year. The 6 canvas tents are raised up on wooden platforms and have wide-open fronts to let in the passing breeze. The en-suite bathrooms have traditional outdoor safari style bucket showers. In a clearing is the dining tent and a library - comfortable little spaces to while away the hours when you're not out in the midst of a safari adventure.  An evening drink around the campfire rounds off a day of excitement out in the wild.

Open game viewing vehicles get you close to the extraordinary natural environment, or you can explore the Chada flood plains on a rambling bush walk. Towards the end of the dry season elephants are in camp most days, and it is not uncommon to have lions wander through.

For the truly adventurous safari goer, there is also the option to escape from the main camp and sleep out in the real middle of nowhere - this is fly camping at it's very best. Set out on foot from camp in the late afternoon and arrive at your fly camp to the sight of the camp fire and drinks on ice. After a delicious 3 course dinner served under the stars, retire to your fly tent and drift off to sleep on a comfy bedroll to the sounds of the bush.

Example Details For Chada Katavi

Nights: 4 Nights
Adults: 2 Children: 0
Room: 1 x Safari Tent
Includes: All meals; all drinks (excluding champagne and premium wines); shared safari activities (including game drives and walking safaris); Conservation fees; and return airstrip transfers are included.

Please Note: As the animals are wild, it is not possible to guarantee what you will see during your safari.

 
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Rooms may normally be occupied from 14:00 on the day of arrival and must normally please be vacated by 11:00 on the day of departure for the convenience of arriving guests.

General Information For Guests

Children over the age of 12 are welcome.

Greystoke Mahale

Mahale Mountains National Park

Days 6 - 8: Mahale Mountains National Park

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Greystoke Mahale is situated on Lake Tanganyika, and is about as remote as you can get. There are no roads within 100 km of the camp, and access is only by light aircraft. Upon arrival at the airstrip there is an approximately 90 minute dhow trip down the lake to reach the camp.

Guests here can enjoy morning hikes in the stunning tropical forest that covers the slopes of the mountains, which is home to 9 different species of primate, including chimpanzee. The main chimp group live in the mountains close to the camp, and have become habituated to human presence over 2 decades.

Every morning, trackers go out early to find the chimp's whereabouts, then after breakfast you can head off along the forest paths until you're surrounded by their calls. For an hour, sit quietly with them watching their daily life; grooming, wrestling, bickering, foraging, eating, and mothering.

You can also observe leopard, bushbuck, bushpig, other primates and a multitude of birds and butterflies which are found throughout the forested slopes of the mountains. The waters of the lake sparkle with over 250 species of tropical fish.

Your accommodation is in wildly exotic wooden bandas, looking out across the soft sand beach, with interiors fashioned from old seasoned dhow timber and decorated with style and panache. The 6 open-fronted bandas are set just on the forest line, looking out over the lake, with a private upstairs chill-out deck.

The bathrooms are set just behind, and are accessible via a short wooden boardwalk.

Fishing, kayaking out into the lake or along the shoreline, beach dinners under the stars, and sundowners on the dhow are some of the other activities that you can also enjoy during a stay here.

Example Details For Greystoke Mahale

Nights: 3 Nights
Adults: 2 Children: 0
Room: 1 x Banda
Includes: All meals; activities on a shared basis: scheduled chimp treks (one trek per each full day in camp); boat trips; deep water swim; forest walks; village visits; scheduled boat transfers to/from Mahale Airstrip for Nomad Shared Chartered flights and Safari Airlink schedule flights only); all drinks (except champagne and premium wines); a laundry service; and Conservancy fees are included.

The minimum participating age for chimpanzee trekking as determined by TANAPA is 12 years old.

Please Note: As the animals are wild, it is not possible to guarantee what you will see during your safari.

 

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Check In / Check Out

Rooms may normally be occupied from 14:00 on the day of arrival and must normally please be vacated by 11:00 on the day of departure for the convenience of arriving guests.

General Information For Guests

Children aged 8 years and older are welcome.

Access is only by light aircraft using a shared charter flight which operates on Mondays and Thursdays only from Arusha. Flights leave early in the morning, and return to Arusha early evening that same day.

The flight to Greystoke Mahale is around 3-4 hours, and upon arrival at the airstrip there is an approximately 90 minute dhow trip down the lake to reach the camp.

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