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LIVINGSTONE CLUB - BAGAMOYO:
The Club is located on the Eastern African coast at 2 Km from the centre of the adjacent colonial town of Bagamoyo, at 70 Km North of Dar Es Salaam, just opposite Zanzibar Island.
A holiday at Bagamoyo is highly suitable for people fond of nature and of authentic Africa not yet influenced by progress and mass tourism. It offers the charming atmosphere of small open air markets, tropical fragrances and the traces of a past tormented by the slave trade and the dominions of various civilisations, which is so incisive that we still perceive its magic… |
THE CLUB HOUSE
Facing the Ocean, the impressive and elegant central structure is a suggestive construction composed of two round buildings connected by a wide hall and archways interspersed with columns. In the centre of one of the buildings there is a luxuriant indoor garden with high coconut-trees. The makuti roof has a very good environment impact and with its wooden pole framework it is an interesting example of ancient local architectonic technique.
The bar and the restaurant on the ground floor face the sea as well as the wide and panoramic overhanging terrace on the first floor used for gala performances and as a restaurant à la carte. It is divided into two areas: one devoted to relaxation with romantic swinging double-seat chairs with carpets and pillows on the floor and the other one is a discrete video watching corner, furnished with comfortable sofas.
The bar, facing the Jacuzzi bath and the swimming pool, prepares wonderful tropical fruit cocktails and appetising snacks.
The restaurant offers a wide choice of Italian and international cuisine, enriched with typical local dishes, grills and theme evenings.
In the show area the staff organise entertainment for the night, gastronomic appointments, piano bar, folk exhibitions with tribal music and dances.
The administrative offices and all the first aid services are centralised in the Club House: reception, telephone, fax, change bureau, library, video library, parlour games place, infirmary, safari and excursions agency and a boutique supplied with perfumery products and also with esteemed local handicrafts and souvenirs. |
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THE ROOMS
Surrounded by a luxuriant tropical garden, there are 40 comfortable rooms made up in ten brick bungalows, with the typical makuti roof (interlaced coconut leaves), located in a gorgeous tropical garden. Each room (for two or three people) has a brick ceiling and covers an area of about 50 m² including the wide veranda; all rooms are air conditioned with fridge, ceiling fan, safe box, bathroom with shower and hot water, orthopaedic mattresses, telephone.
The furniture, which exalts the local taste and tradition, is composed of ancient tester beds with mosquito nets and other esteemed handicraft wooden accessories. There is a murales "tinga-tinga" and the floor is with inlayed with wood.
Laundry service is provided. |
CONFERENCE ROOM
Auditorium with 120 seats, equipped with multimedia systems and DVD device; a secretary’s office, with computer facilities; air conditioned. The conference room is located in a strategic position, close to the Club House and to the main gate of the village, not far from the private parking area.
We can meet your conferencing needs providing for:
- welcome cocktails
- gala dinners
- tea breaks
- evening entertainment
- other complimentary services.
Our conference room offers a comprehensive range of “on site” facilities, services and activities.
The following equipment / facilities are available:
- Fully air conditioned conference room
- White board
- Slide projector
- VHS Video player with Television
- P.A System
- Lectern and microphone
- Recording facilities
- Video recording
- HI – Fi system
- Photocopy / Facsimile service
- Secretarial service
- Telephone service (Local and International)
- Email and internet service
- Writing pads, pens and etc |
SPORTS
The Livingstone Club is the ideal place to combine culture and relaxation together with all sorts of sports activities. Recreation facilities include a tennis-court, a swimming-pool, a water massage pool, a beach-volley court, mountain bikes, archery, darts, Ping-Pong, table football, one/two seat kayaks, windsurfers, boats and equipment for diving and snorkelling.
DIVING CENTER PINK SHARK
The Club has a diving centre with a school managed by qualified trainers who can issue international diving patents (PADI). The centre can supply all the necessary equipment for the diving activity.
The guests will be allowed to use its warehouse to keep their personal equipment.
Every day a guided dive along the coral reef is programmed. The visibility in the water is usually good though not perfect. The sea stream changes according to the tide, but it is seldom strong. The water temperature is about 24°C/28°C.
The sea bottoms surrounding Mwambakuni atoll are the destination of our daily dives. They are very rich in marine life and they can arouse enthusiasm even in the most experienced divers thanks to the frequent meetings with groupers, barracudas, lateen sails, lion fishes, turtles, gaily coloured reef fishes in shoals and again gorgonias, sponges, corals. |
EXCURSION
Trips to the beautiful islands of Zanzibar, Pemba and Mafia are organized on request.
There are numerous excursions organized daily to Bagamoyo and its surroundings, by land and by water.
Coral atoll: every morning a boat outing to the coral atoll is scheduled, there it is possible to practice diving and snorkelling, or simply enjoy the beach.
Kaole ruins: Kaole is a picturesque fishing village located at about 5 km, south of Bagamoyo. Immersed in the rich vegetation characterised by mangoes, coconut and sausage trees, these mosque and tomb remains, some of which date back to the 13th century, are the oldest evidences of the Arab settlement in Eastern Africa.
Bush tour: excursions in the surroundings of Bagamoyo. In the bush characterised by baobabs and cashew-trees, there is a characteristic local village where it is possible to see daily pastoral and country life scenes.
Bagamoyo tour: a visit to the ancient buildings and ruins of the 19th century when Bagamoyo was the capital of the German East Africa Company. The catholic mission is the oldest in this area and seat of an important museum on the slave liberation and the explorers Burton, Livingstone, Stanley and Speke who lived here and organised their expeditions to the interior. After this a tour in the town centre with the possibility to do some shopping at the fruit and spice market, and at the picturesque fish market on the beach.
Ruvu river: a 30 minute drive through the bush to the Ruvu river bank. From here sail up the river along the mangrove forest and its marvellous ecosystem. Meet hippopotamuses, crocodiles and various birds.
Mlingotini: is a quiet village on the beach where the fishermen build their characteristic boats called “ngalawa” (canoes with an equaliser) by carving the mango trunks. Sometimes it is possible to attend the propitiatory rites of a “mwganga” (a forest doctor or wizard).
Mbegani lagoon: after a picturesque 30 minute bus trip our guests reach the landing-stage. Then they sail inside the splendid Mbegani lagoon, among deserted small islands and mangrove channels rich in avifauna.
Bagamoyo theatre: a visit to the Chuo Cha Sanaa, the most important art school of Eastern Africa. The theatre is an impressive African style construction, its roof represents the three peaks of the Kilimanjaro mount. Here our guests will attend a dance or folk music lesson and on the beach beside the theatre it will be interesting to see the students of the wood carving school at work.
Mass at the ancient mission: every Sunday morning our guests can attend the catholic Mass: African and Latin chants are usually sung following the tune of traditional music and sounds “ngoma”.
Bagamoyo on a mountain bike: a guided bike tour in the streets of Bagamoyo and its outskirts to places both along the coast and inside the bush. An obliged stop: the small coloured spice and fruit markets.
If requested, it is possible to visit the nursery school and the hospital of Bagamoyo. |
ENTERTAINMENT
- Cinema in big screen DVD Multilingual System
- Disco Dance
- Piano-bar
- Gala dinners around the swimming pool or on the terrace
- Barbecue dinner
- Folklore shows with traditional music and dance
- “African Night” under the stars, in which the guests are invited to wear African dresses and to eat, sitting on the beach, typical buffets of Swahili dishes and a barbecue with wild meat, fish, meat and vegetables.
SAFARI
Besides the standard daily programs, the Livingstone Club organises personalised safaris in all the parks of Tanzania, an ideal and exclusive destination for the people who love nature. |
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BAGAMOYO - TANZANIA:
The town of Bagamoyo is the oldest town in Tanzania, founded by the end of the 18th century. It was the original capital of German East Africa and one of the most important trading ports along the East African coast. Today the town has 30,000 inhabitants and is the capital of the District of Bagamoyo, recently designated as a world heritage site. Bagamoyo lies 75 kilometers north of Dar es Salaam.
Bagamoyo's history has been influenced by Indian and Arab traders, by the German colonial government and by Christian missionaries. About 5 km south of Bagamoyo, the Kaole Ruins with remnants of two mosques and a couple of tombs can be dated back to the 13th century and show the importance of Islam in those early Bagamoyo times. All of the structures were built with coral stones. Until the middle of the 18th century, Bagamoyo was a small and insignificant trading center where most of the population were fishermen and farmers. Main trading goods were fish, salt and gum among some other things. Today the College of Arts (Chuo cha Sanaa), the only major college in Tanzania, is situated along the Kaole road close to the Kaole ruins and teaches various fields of dance, music, drama and painting. Over weekends the students give free performances allowing visitors to acquaint themselves with traditional dances.
In the late 18th century Muslim families settled in Bagamoyo, all of which were relatives of Shamvi la Magimba in Oman. They made their living by enforcing taxes on the native population and by trading in salt, gathered from the Nunge coast north of Bagamoyo. In the first half of the 19th century, Bagamoyo became a trading port for ivory and slave trade, with traders coming from the African interior, from places as far as Morogoro, Lake Tanganyika and Usambara on their way to Zanzibar. This explains the meaning of the word Bagamoyo ("Bwaga-Moyo") which means "Lay down your Heart" in Swahili, a despair expressed by people who were captured as slaves knowing that they face a long uncertain future.
Slave trade officially ended in the year 1873, but well to the end of the 19th century slaves were sold and traded in Bagamoyo.
In 1868, Bagamoyo's Muslim presented the Catholic "Fathers of the Holy Ghost" with land for a mission north of the town, the first mission in East Africa. This caused resistance by the native Zaramo people which after an intervention by the French consul if Zanzibar was put down by Sultan Majid and after 1870 by Sultan Barghash. Originally the mission was intended to house children who were rescued from slavery, but it soon expanded to a church, a school, and some workshops and farming projects. Here you will also find a cemetery, where the early missionaries were buried, and a small shrine which was built by freed slaves in 1876.
But Bagamoyo was not only a trade center for slaves, ivory and copra, it was also a starting point for some renowned European explorers. From Bagamoyo they moved out to find the source of the River Nile and explored the African inner lakes. Some of these were David Livingstone, Richard Francis Burton, John Hanning Speke, Henry Morton Stanley and James Augustus Grant. The Bagamoyo museum is a small museum which displays Bagamoyo history in relation to its contact with foreigners, here visitors can view old photographs, documents and relics from the slave trade. On the same compound there is a small chapel known as the Anglican Church of the Holy Cross. The church is famous for being a place where the remains of David Livingston were laid before taken to Zanzibar en route to Westminster Abbey for burial.
Bagamoyo was the German headquarters of German East Africa in 1891. In the first year of World War I, a British air attack and naval bombardment was launched on Bagamoyo, the Germans overrun and the German garrison taken. Bomani, the German Colonial administration headquarters, is now a memorial site for the first German East African Capital.
When Seyyid Said, Sultan of Oman, decided to move his capital from Muscat to Zanzibar in 1940, Bagamoyo's importance began to decline.
Today, Bagamoyo is a centre for dhow sailboat building. The Department of Antiquities in Tanzania is working to maintain the ruins of the colonial era in and around Bagamoyo and to revitalize the town. The Bagamoyo College of Arts (“Chuo cha Sanaa”) is an internationally famous arts college in Tanzania, teaching traditional Tanzanian painting, sculpture, drama, dancing and drumming. |
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