This, above, is the small guest house (which we also sometimes call the 'guest cottage') which sits just behind our farm workshops (the first 3 photo's in this post were all taken when the landscape was still green - it looks browner and drier here at the moment !) I wrote a little about the guest house quite some time ago in a post over here. It is currently used about 2 weekend's a month, for horseback safari clients.A fellow farming couple, who also live in the Kilimanjaro area (though not very close to our farm) run these horseback safari's. They are also our vets, and have helped me a lot with stray/neglected animals on our farm over the years. The photo below shows some of their horses grazing in the fenced garden of the guest house.
The guest house has 2 bedrooms, a bathroom (with shower/toilet/basin), a kitchen, dining area and a lounge which can be used to sleep 2 extra people - the lounge has a wonderful fireplace, too. (I'm doing some work on the interior at the moment, so might include some interior photo's in an upcoming blog post - it's pretty 'rustic').The veranda is very sheltered and the views from it look out over Mt Meru and this is where I have another dining table set up - as it's the perfect place for guests to eat ! It's so sheltered infact, that we've had friends over to stay who's children have opted to spend the night in sleeping bags out on the veranda !
The photo below shows the views from the guest house garden .... the base of Mt Meru is barely visible in all that fluffy cloud .......
This below, is the veranda roof - it was looking a bit tatty so has recently been covered with dried banana leaves. This is a very common way of covering outside rooves here - it looks much better than the bare fibre glass roof which it covers.
And these are the 2 fundi's who completed the roof in about 2 days - aren't they clever ?! They were very proud of their work, and happy for me to take their photograph once they had completed it.
Since we now have 2 children, and our house only has 4 bedrooms (one for hubby & I, one for our daughter, one for our son and one as an office), if we have visitors to stay in the future, we will put them up at the guest house - mainly to sleep, as they will of course enjoy all their meals and daily living with us at the main farm house. Just thought I'd let you know ..... incase you were planning on visiting us anytime soon ;)
