Gibbs Farm
The property
A historic working coffee farm on the forested slopes of Ngorongoro, ten acres of organic gardens, farm-to-table food and charming cottages.
One of northern Tanzania’s oldest and best-loved guesthouses, a coffee plantation from the 1920s famously restored by James and Margaret Gibb in 1948. On the forested slopes of Ngorongoro, it restores weary travellers with ten-acre organic gardens, farm-to-table cooking, and cottages that celebrate the slow rhythm of highland life.
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Where it sits
On the forested outer slopes of the Ngorongoro highlands above Karatu, an easy staging point roughly half an hour from the crater gate and within reach of Lake Manyara. The ground itself is a working coffee farm dating to the 1920s, wrapped in cultivated gardens and highland forest rather than open plains.
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The rooms
Twenty en-suite cottages recently opened up with more windows onto the Ngorongoro Forest Reserve, with rich wooden floors, wraparound windows, private garden verandas and a wraparound fireplace warming both living area and bathroom.
The country around it
Ngorongoro Conservation Area
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Stay at Gibbs Farm
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Direct line
Tanzania office
P.O. Box 746, Usa-River, Arusha