Why Us?.
There are number of reasons beyond the thoughts to choose Themi Valley Homestay as the home away from your home when visiting Arusha. These reasons include:
Traditonal modified rooms with WiFi.
- Our rooms are really cozy with unique decor. Some of them especially in lower valley location has unplastered burnt bricks which give authentic architectural impression. These rooms are named by using the names of plants grown in our botanical garden. How will you feel sleeping in these rooms namely, coffee room, banana room, avocado room, papaya room or mango room? Then in the morning you will be served a good and attractive breakfast compossed of fresh organic and home made juice, various fruits _ avaccodo, ripe bananas, water melon pineapples, mangoes, coffee/tea, sweet/irish potatoes, unique pan cake, bread, finger milet podridge, eggs milk This is really incredible!
Our rooms are also supplied with Wi-Fi services that will connect you with your beloved one at home as well as daily news and information of the world.
Beautiful and quite environment within the city.
Our environment is reallly beautiful and endowed with both natural and man made Forest, Indigenous trees, green vegetable gardens, beautiful herbs and flowers with fresh air, nice sounds of birds in the morning and evening hours. All these create a unique impression of us comparing to other places around the city.
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- Proximity to the city and its icons.
You really don't need to spend too much time again when visiting the city. While at Themi Valley, you are already in the city of Arusha. It's just 5 to 10 minutes a walking distance from your room to areas like clock tower, maasai market, natural history museum, independent monument and food market which stands as the icons of Arusha city.
- Learning point of African traditional ways of life.
When you are here, you are as if you are directly connected to the life style of people in rural areas. For here you will visit a shade of zero grazing cows which are manually fed/milked , you will learn how the stingless bee are kept at home, harvested and packaging of the honey. You will observe or learn how to prepare nice traditional cuisines and enjoy it in the end. You will observe and learn how to prepare organic coffee from farm to cup. These activities are the copy of what is really being done by villagers in the rural areas. If you are also interested, you can be taken to the village directly to have an authentic experience
- Creativitity and innovativeness.
Mama Lydia Joachim, the co founder and owner of Themi Valley homestay has really shown the world how brave she is on creating village life within urban environment. Most of the activities she is doing in this town vicinity is really the copy of what is being done by African mamas in the villages. Starting from preparing a traditional cuisines like Machalari and Ugali by using traditional cooking stove to milking cows manually in an urban area of Arusha Town.
- Ecology Managenent.
Here we practice sustainable tourism through encouraging preservation of natural vegetation and planting appropriate additional trees. These plants are fertilized by applying to the soil natural and compost manure. The efforts include practising proper land scaping technics on this hilly Valley.The conserved area is currently a botanical garden containing various flowers, fruits and indeginous trees which is being used as a recreational area for guests.
- Ecology Managenent.
- Extra innovation
By planting various trees along the bank of Themi River valley has changed the outlook of the place and creating a nice habitats of flora and fauna species as well as ensuring to be reliable and continuation of good source of water in Arusha urban. Large percentage of population in Arusha depends on getting water originating from Themi River of the Mount Meru.
Waste Management
On waste management point of view, no food leftovers are wasted. All of our leftovers go to feed our few dairy zero grazing cows which finally produce milk for breakfast, manure as fertliser for vegetables and trees in the gardens, biogas as renawable alternative source of energy for kitchen use.
