Must-see hotels in Southern Highlands

  • Kisolanza – The Old Farm House

    Southern Highlands

    This gracious 1930s farm homestead 50km southwest of Iringa is fringed by stands of pine and rolling hill country and recommended for its accommodation…

  • Blue Canoe Safari Camp

    Southern Highlands

    This lovely beachfront place has camping with spotless ablution blocks, and luxury bungalows with verandahs overlooking the lake, polished wood floors and…

  • Ruaha River Lodge

    Southern Highlands

    This unpretentious, beautifully situated 28-room lodge was the first in the park and is the only place on the river. It’s divided into two separate…

  • Utengule Coffee Lodge

    Southern Highlands

    This lovely lodge is set in expansive grounds on a hilly coffee plantation 20km west of Mbeya. Tasteful accommodation includes spacious standard rooms,…

  • Mwagusi Safari Camp

    Southern Highlands

    This highly regarded 16-bed owner-managed camp is set in a prime wildlife-viewing location on the Mwagusi Sand River 20km inside the park gate – animals…

  • Mbuyuni Farm Retreat

    Southern Highlands

    This quiet place consists of three spacious, elegant cottages in the gardens of a working farm just outside Morogoro, overlooking the Uluguru Mountains…

  • Camp Bastian Mikumi

    Southern Highlands

    Located 10km west of the main gate, Camp Bastian is a harmoniously beautiful and good-value choice, with quality food and good drivers/guides on hand…

  • Neema Umaki Guest House

    Southern Highlands

    This centrally located guesthouse has an array of clean, comfortable rooms, all with nets and TV. It adjoins Neema Crafts centre, but rooms are in a…

  • Mdonya Old River Camp

    Southern Highlands

    The relaxed Mdonya Old River Camp, about 1½ hours’ drive from park headquarters, has 12 tents on the banks of the Mdonya Sand River, with elephants…

  • Mufindi Highlands Lodge

    Southern Highlands

    This lovely lodge, set amid landscaped gardens in the forested hills and tea plantations around Mufindi, offers cool highland air and the chance to…

  • Vuma Hills

    Mikumi National Park

    This pleasant camp is set on a rise about 7km south of the main road, with views over the distant plains. The 16 elegant tented en suite cottages each…

  • Angalia Tented Camp

    Southern Highlands

    Angalia Camp is about 1.5km off the main road, just west of the Mikumi National Park boundary, en route towards Mikumi town. It has five large safari…

  • Chogela Campsite

    Southern Highlands

    Shaded grounds, a large cooking-dining area and hot-water showers make this a popular budget choice. There are also twin-bedded safari-style tents…

  • Iringa Sunset Hotel

    Southern Highlands

    This new hotel enjoys one of the best locations in Iringa, with an eagle-eye view of the town and surrounding plains. There's a wonderful central dining…

  • Hondo Hondo

    Southern Highlands

    This camp has six safari-style tents with bathroom, a grassy camping area and five basic mud-and-thatch bungalows sharing solar-heated ablutions with the…

  • Tan-Swiss Hotel & Restaurant

    Southern Highlands

    This place makes a good stop, with a camping area with hot-water showers, plus spacious grounds, comfortable rooms with private bathroom, and several…

  • Ruaha Park Bandas & Cottages

    Southern Highlands

    Ruaha's 'old' park bandas, in a fine setting directly on the river near park headquarters, have been partially upgraded. Several have private bathroom,…

  • Mbamba Bay Bio Camp Lodge

    Southern Highlands

    Comfortable stone and thatch bungalows with bathrooms, plus some permanent tents on the beach under makuti (thatched palm leaf) roofing. You can also…

  • Morogoro Hotel

    Southern Highlands

    This Morogoro institution has decent twin- and double-bedded rooms in detached bungalows set in spacious green grounds 1.5km off the main road and…

  • Matema Lake Shore Resort

    Southern Highlands

    This recommended Swiss-built place has several spacious, breezy, comfortable two-storey beachfront family chalets; some smaller, equally nice double and…

  • Mama Iringa B&B

    Southern Highlands

    Clean, simple rooms in an old convent: all have nets, and there's a great Italian restaurant. It's 3.5km from town, in the Don Bosco area. Follow Mkwawa…

  • Ifisi Community Centre

    Southern Highlands

    A very good option for self-drivers en route to/from the Zambian border or points west. There are smallish but spotless guesthouse rooms in this church…

  • Bongo Camping

    Southern Highlands

    A backpacker-friendly place with a large, grassy area to pitch your tent, basic cooking facilities, hot-bucket showers, tents for hire and meals on order…

  • Mikumi Wildlife Camp

    Mikumi National Park

    This camp, about 500m northeast of the park gate, has attractive stone cottages with shaded verandahs and views over a grassy field frequented by grazing…

  • Ruaha Hilltop Lodge

    Southern Highlands

    This friendly no-frills lodge has a fine hilltop perch 1.5km off the Tungamalenga road, with wide views over the plains from the raised restaurant-bar…

  • Mama Pierina’s

    Southern Highlands

    A warm welcome and a convenient central location; rooms to the back of the compound have four-poster-style mosquito nets, mountain views and a garden…

  • Amabilis Centre

    Southern Highlands

    This church place on the northeastern edge of town offers small, spotless rooms in a multistorey building surrounded by gardens; kindly Catholic sisters…

  • Crocodile Camp

    Southern Highlands

    This friendly place is 300m off the main highway 12km east of Ruaha Mbuyuni, with a restaurant, camping and simple bungalows. Staff can organise guides…

  • Mbeya Hotel

    Southern Highlands

    The former East African Railways & Harbours Hotel has a faded colonial charm – check out the marble floor – and African art on the walls. Rooms are…

  • Tandala Tented Camp

    Southern Highlands

    Lovely Tandala sits just outside the park boundary, 12km from the gate. Eleven raised tents are scattered around shaded grounds with a bush feel …

  • Mikumi Park Cottages & Resthouse

    Mikumi National Park

    About 3km from the gate, the park cottages and resthouse offer rooms in attached brick bungalows, all with bathroom, fan and air-con, and meals on order …

  • Hill Side Hotel

    Southern Highlands

    This cosy place has modest twin- and double-bedded rooms, hot water (usually), small but lovely poinsettia-studded gardens, and a good restaurant with TV…

  • Udzungwa Twiga Hotel

    Southern Highlands

    The Tanapa-run Twiga is set in expansive green grounds under the mountains and surrounded by forest, about 700m east of park headquarters. Rooms –…

  • Seed Farm Villa

    Southern Highlands

    This place has modern, quiet rooms with TV set in tranquil garden surroundings away from the town centre in the Seed Farm area. It has a sitting room with…

  • Catholic Youth Centre

    Southern Highlands

    Recommended budget accommodation in Mbeya – the spacious terracotta-floored rooms are set in tranquil gardens. Bathrooms are basic but perfectly adequate,…

  • Hotel Oasis

    Southern Highlands

    Oasis has acceptable albeit faded rooms that are redeemed by generally good service, a decent restaurant, a convenient central location, small gardens and…

  • Namwinyu Guest House

    Southern Highlands

    This is Tunduru’s best accommodation, with clean, pleasant double-bedded rooms (no same-gender sharing) and tasty, inexpensive meals on order. It’s along…

  • New Acropol Hotel

    Southern Highlands

    This enjoyably eccentric B&B-style hotel has six mostly spacious rooms in a 1940s estate manager's house around a plant-filled courtyard. All have…

  • Iringa Lutheran Centre

    Southern Highlands

    This long-standing place has clean, quiet and pleasant twin and double-bedded rooms with bathrooms and hot water, a tranquil garden and a restaurant. It’s…

  • Ruaha Park Main Public Campsite

    Southern Highlands

    The park's main campsite (with a cooking area and basic ablutions) is in a lovely setting, directly on the river near Msembe park headquarters, but with…