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Tanzania Hotels and Resorts - Although a Tanzanian gorge recently yielded a few bits of our old mate, Homo erectus, little is known about the country's really early history. Recorded history begins around 1800, when the Maasai warrior tribes were migrating from Kenya to Tanzania. While the country's coastal area had long witnessed maritime squabbles between Portuguese and Arabic traders, it wasn't until the middle of the 18th century that Arab traders and slaves dared venture into Maasai territory in the country's wild interior. European explorers began arriving in earnest in the mid-19th century, the most famous being Stanley and Livingstone. The famous phrase 'Dr Livingstone, I presume', stems from the duo's meeting at Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika.

Mountain Village Arusha P.O. Box 2551, Arusha, Tanzania Hotel Rating : Reserve Inquire View Rates

Mountain Village, Arusha. Secreted in the depths of a tree-shaded coffee plantation, wreathed in multi-coloured tresses of tumbling bougainvillea, cooled by mountain streams and strung like a necklace around the shores of an idyllic wooded lake, Mountain Village offers a haven of calm and serenity just outside the hustle and bustle of Arusha, Tanzania's premier 'Safari Town'. Set in the flowered gardens of a coffee planter's farm house and surrounded by rolling groves of wax-green coffee bushes, Mountain Village offers wide timbered decks with panoramic views over Lake Duluti, and a selection of ethnically-styled 'Rondavel' village-cluster rooms, each one neatly thatched with 'Makuti' stems, lavishly embellished with 'Makonde' carvings and comfortably furnished in traditional safari style.

ACCOMMODATION: A total guest rooms 42 - Superior Rooms 6 - Twin rooms 38. Rooms The stone-built rooms are housed in a half-moon of traditional 'rondavel' circular dwellings with views over a bougainvillea-cloaked slope descending to the lake's shores. Each 'rondavel', neatly thatched in 'Makuti' stems and lined with close-weave basketwork, has been arranged to cluster in a village-style grouping around the shade of an ancient forest tree whilst the lavishly 'Makonde' carved doors radiate off the cool of a central flowered courtyard. Charmingly appointed with spacious bathrooms, individual verandas and curved French windows giving views onto the tranquil lakeside beauty, the rooms have been decorated in the traditional safari style and feature net-draped beds, soft lamps, intricately carved furniture and pastel-patterned drapes. At the end of an action-packed day, guests can also take in a stroll around the flowered gardens, watch flights of snow-white egret returning to their forest roosts, explore the lake by canoe or follow the nature trail that loops around the lake and into the groves of neighbouring coffee estates.       HOTEL FACILITIES & SERVICES: The dining room overlooks the lake's flower-fringed slopes and features an open-air bar area, a relaxed candlelit atmosphere and menu choices that include traditional safari favourites and internationally themed menus alike. . An imaginative range of lakeside sundowners, private picnics, and specialist cultural entertainments . Express check-in and out plus 24-hour Forex services . Full housekeeping services (laundry, valet, babysitting, children's menus and dining, and shoeshine) . Full medical back-up and emergency evacuation facilities . Extensively stocked Africana Gift Shop . Beauty treatments, massage and hairdressing . Serena Active - Mountain bikes, canoes, nature walks and bird watching . 24-hour Forex facilities . A wide range of board games plus a full library of books on Africa