As a beginning Adia's Place is very small, and it will probably never be large - that would in some ways contradict the nature of the place. The current accommodations are as follows:

• Two 'small' rooms. These are 3.5m square rooms - not so small - with an additional space for storage of your stuff, and with a pleasant western style en-suite bathroom.
• The 'Honeymoon Room' - a similar but larger room set up with a couple in mind.
• One good sized room with similar setup, but with an entrance foyer leading to a separate bedroom and bathroom.
• The Old Cottage - a somewhat rustic, furnished cottage-style house with bedroom, bathroom, living, and cooking areas, ideal for a couple on a longer term stay.
• The South House - a furnished small house with bedroom, en-suite bathroom, living, and cooking areas, again ideal for a couple on a longer term stay.

The rooms and small houses come with breakfast, though if you choose so, in the small houses, you can cater for yourself. In all cases, we can feed you in the evening if you like.

Our breakfast is typically:

• Fruit Juice
• Tea or coffee
• One of of:
• Eggs (2 or 3 depending on size) - fried, boiled, poached, scrambled, or mini-omelette.
• Fried tomatoes and hot-dog style sausage (the tomatoes here seem to be particularly tasty).
• Cheddar cheese on toast.
• Adia's beans* on toast
• Cheese soup - All the above with toast.
• Corned beef hash
• Toast and spreads - cheese spread, African honey, Nutella, local peanut butter, jam, and marmalade.
• Muesli, corn flakes, or Weetabix with milk.

• Grilled fish (lake Tilapia, or sea red snapper) with rice or potatoes and seasonable vegetables**.
• Corned beef hash with a side salad***.
• Chips mayai (an omelette made with chips/french fries) with pili-pili (hot sauce) and a side salad.
• Ugali with beef in gravy with seasonal vegetable.
• Kagera style green bananas in a sauce with beans and meat.
• Beef skewers with garlic mashed potatoes and chutney.
• Spaghetti Bolognese.
• Rice and Beans with seasonable vegetable (vegetarian).
• Tuna mayonnaise with salad, lettuce, and red potatoes boiled in their skins.
• Beef burger and chips with Adia's beans.
• Spicy goat casserole.

If you want something that is not the meal of he day, and the ingredients are available, the cost will typically beroung TS12000.

* - Adia's beans are to die for!
** - Vegetables are often from our own garden.
*** - Salad is typically a mix of tomato, cucumber, capsicum, onion, and avocado, with olive oil and lemon juice dressing.

Drinks

Please feel free to bring your own - we'll chill it for you if required. Within minutes there are two African village style pubs that we can introduce you to. We're also close to popular pubs and restaurants at Nane Nane, on Njiro Road

Communications.

If you have your laptop with you, there's wireless Internet within the compound. Alternatively there's a public machine available to access your email etc.

The rooms and small houses are equipped with a small LCD TV connected to the local digital TV transmitter. You can get the major international news channels, local channels, and some entertainment channels.

If you don't have a Tanzanian phone, We'll give you a cheapo local prepaid phone as your room keyring when you arrive so you can communicate with us and avoid roaming charges on your own mobile. For this we'll need you to pay a deposit of around $40. You'll use the phone to book dinner if you want it, when you plan to be out late, or when you need a lift.

Transport.

In some cases the tour company that's organizing your itinerary will get you to us and to your other destinations. However, if you are doing it yourself we can take you into town and pick you up for a small extra charge. Alternatively we can get you from or take you to the main road, and you can sample the joys of African public transport - the Daladala.

Adia's Place can provide one-stop shopping. If you need it, we can organize a mini bus with driver to you pick you up from and take you back to the airport. Safari's can be tailored to your requirements, but that's best done before you arrive. Let us know what you want - ap@britseyeview.com.

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Kikokwaru is the area to the west of Njiro 'B' block. Suburbia is creeping closer - Adia's Place for instance, but it is still at the edge of a rural area. Here's our location on Google Maps. Unfortunately Google's satellite views and maps of Tanzania leave quite a lot to be desired.

The people of the village keep cows and hens and goats, and grow vegetables, beans, corn, and fruit trees for sale or consumption. To the west there's a steep sided valley through which flows a river that flows south from Mt Meru. Sadly it goes nowhere. Further south it runs into the dry where it just dries up. Fortunately the village has an irrigation system along the ridge that I believe is fed from the outflow from the settling ponds of the Arusha sewage system.

Many of the buildings in the area behind Adia's Place are the traditional woven wood and mud structures with no glass in the windows and only the occasional door. On the village main street the houses are mostly new ones that have replaced wood and mud with concrete blocks.

You'll see the scenes below as you take a micro safari around the village.