| Baobab Lodge | | | | imaging. The house was recorded on a map |
| This is a small and casual lodge is built on top of a | | | | drawn on the HMS Stork as she passed in 1844. |
| rocky cliff overlooking the ocean at Kilifi. | | | | You eat delicious home-cooked lunch in the cool |
| Rondavels are scattered around a nicely shaded | | | | of the house. An odd horse peers through the |
| property. There are 26 attractively decorated | | | | door. You can ride horses when you stay at the |
| rooms with Maasai murals on the walls and | | | | house. You can also use boats. |
| spacious verandahs. Most rooms do not offer sea | | | | There are three guest bedrooms, each with |
| views. | | | | functional bathrooms. The house is comfortable |
| | | | and lived in-lots of books, slip-covered couches. |
| Kilifi Bay Resort Hotel & Village | | | | There is a very small swimming pool. The hosts |
| This Italian hotel can accommodate 85 and is | | | | can arrange to pick you up from the |
| typically booked in Europe. Designed and | | | | airport-Mombasa, or Malindi. The tariff includes all |
| decorated with flair, it feels spacious and exotic. | | | | food and activities except deep sea fishing. They |
| There are high thatched roofs, large open | | | | close for May. |
| verandas, carved Lamu-Style furniture, and lush | | | | African Rainbow Sea Safaris |
| and colorful tropical vegetation. Public buildings are | | | | Mirella Riccardi, the accomplished photographer and |
| set well back from the beach and look over the | | | | author, has opened her Kilifi home to paying |
| pool and past palm trees to the ocean beyond. | | | | guests. From October to March Mirella will host |
| Accommodations are in three-roomed bungalows, | | | | guests herself and can arrange for alternate |
| some close to the beach. Stone steps lead down | | | | hosting at other times of the year. |
| to a long beach with a thatched shelter for shade. | | | | There are actually two houses, perched high on |
| Invigorating music was being played for scuba | | | | the banks of Kilifi Creek. Steps lead down to a |
| diving lesson in the pool. | | | | small private sandy beach, and massive baobab |
| Takaungu House | | | | trees add a timeless feel. Between the two |
| On a private curve of beach, far from the hotels | | | | houses Mirella can host up to 10 people. |
| of Mombasa and Malindi, is Takaungu House. | | | | The newer house has an impressive high-thatched |
| Located south of Kilifi, the house is named after | | | | roof with a large opening through which |
| the neighboring small village of | | | | bougainvillea spills. Below is a wide veranda. There |
| Takaungu-supposedly the oldest slave port in | | | | are no windows-just big arched openings and |
| Kenya. | | | | metal grillwork. There is an artist's touch |
| Guests stay in a very old slave trader's house | | | | everywhere-carvings on wooden pole supports, |
| with thick whitewashed walls, giant roof beams, | | | | relief designs in the plaster work. The house has |
| and shutters on the windows. It is close to the | | | | two bedrooms downstairs and sleeping loft up a |
| ocean. The hosts themselves stay nearby on the | | | | ladder. Te other house is an older coastal home |
| property in a newly constructed Arab style house. | | | | with a spacious living/dining room with lovely |
| Takaungu House is special because of the | | | | views of trees and water. There are two |
| wonderful setting, the atmosphere of tranquility | | | | bedrooms and Mediterranean style pergola |
| and timelessness, and the delightful hosts. The | | | | over-looking the water. |
| small bay is edged with dark rocks and has golden | | | | There is a swimming pool and guests can take to |
| sand seldom marred by human foot prints. The | | | | the creek in rubber dinghies. From this base, |
| big old baobab trees and the hoary stone ruins | | | | guests can also arrange to take a sailing and |
| bear silent witness to history, Africa, and inspired | | | | goggling safari in a 50ft catamaran. |