Kijani House Hotel
Overview and photo Kijani House Hotel
Property name: Kijani House Hotel
Type: Hotel
Stars: 
Address: - - Lamu (Kenya)
Telephone: 254 - 42 - 633235 / 6 / 7
Email: kijani@africaonline.co.ke
Fax: 254 - 42 - 633374
Website: www.kijani-lamu.com
For info and reservation please contact: 254 - 42 - 633235 / 6 / 7
Description Kijani House Hotel
Off the bustling waterfront of Shela village, dhows sway gently on the incoming tide as merchants and fishermen cross back and forth on the shimmering sand. A few steps away, a few white steps and a small entranceway, framed by clusters of frangipani and bougainvillea flowers, opens to cool shade and green shadows. Entering Kijani House is like stepping into a secret garden.
Kijani’s rooms and gardens are filled with antiques or handmade replicas of the furniture, lanterns, ornaments, and utensils that graced the stately houses of Lamu’s past. Each room has a bathroom and has its own balcony or veranda facing the garden and the sea. The rooms are spread throughout the garden into three small seperate traditional Swahili buildings which formerly were private homes, made of coral walls, with boriti ceiling and makuti roofs.
Two aquamarine pools glow gently in the shade of giant kunazi trees, small tables and beach chairs lie in the shade of a profusion of different species of palm trees, and flowering flamboyant and yellow oleanders branch out over large terraces that face the ocean. ‘Kijani’ means green in Kiswahili, at once invoking the colour of Islam, the small hotel’s verdant gardens, and new growth.
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