Kiwayu Safari Village beach resort is a more unqiue and exclusive alternative to Africa hotels. Accommodation is in 18 cottages built in the traditional “Bajuni” style using mangrove poles, palm thatch and matting. The spacious suites are set apart, amongst the star palms along the beach, each enjoying complete privacy.
Bedrooms are large and open to the sea, there is solar powered running water in showers and flushing toilets with a twin basin bathroom and bidet. Each banda has an extensive verandah for lounging (complete with hammock and Lamu beds) to enjoy the breeze where peace is total.
A living room perched graciously under a baobab, leading a few steps away to a dazzling bedroom with en-suite facilities, is all that exists on the small hillside. As few more comfortable steps downwards lead to a pavilion on the edge of the water, perfect for daytime lounging, refreshments and shade.
Each hammock-strung veranda offers privacy and a panoramic over the bay. And each one is within a few metres of the water's edge, clustered around the restaurant, the bar and the boats.
Every room is furnished with a Super king-size bed surrounded by a turquoise mosquito net. It is simple, spacious and well furnished with different sitting areas and tables - with many options for that all-important siesta. These bandas are designed to blend into the dunes - no concrete, no nails, nothing to jar the senses.
The dining room and bar are also built in the local Bajuni tradition with palm-thatched roofs and woven matting floors, all open-sided to the beach.
The Baobabs of Kitangani
On Kiwayu Island approximately three kilometres from the existing Safari Village, “The Baobabs of Kitangani” has been developed. Nestling between the enormous ageless baobabs, almost invisible from the beach, this a dream of a couple or family expecting the perfect setting and total privacy, in the most aesthetically pleasing blend of architecture, comfort and scenery imaginable.
A living room perched graciously under a giant baobab , leading a few steps away to a dazzling bedroom with spectacular panoramic views with ensuite facilities, is all that exists on the small hillside . A few more comfortable steeps downwards lead to two beach bandas on the waters edge of the water , perfect for daytime lounging, refreshments , shade and swimming .
Staff and boatmen are at guests service and meals are served in the bedroom or on the beach under the shade of the bandas . The staff are discreet and over a kilometer of beach is available to guests.
Cuisine at Kiwayu Safari Village
From the sea: charcoal-grilled lobster with tarragon sauce, giant mangrove crab kalaloo or crab with fresh basil from the fragrant garden, red snapper, rock cod, tuna, sushimi with wasabi, sweet rock oysters and other shell delicacies.
Italian touch: pasta in infinite varieties, home made tagliatelle and lasagne, risotto, tonno tonnato - all simple but oh, so good. Fresh fruit salads filled with mango, papaya and passion fruit flavored with fresh orange, limejuice, and homemade fruit sorbet.
All foods are selected from the best organic farms and markets of the country and vegetarian and other dietary preferences are met with gourmet professionalism.
Excellent and selected wines from the well stocked cellar please any connoisseur.
Special food or eating times for children can be arranged. The restaurant is waiter serviced and unlike most safari camps, Kiwayu is not communal dinning.
