Udzungwa Forest Lodge

Udzungwa Forest Lodge (also known as Hondo Hondo, the KiSwahili for Hornbill) is situated on the border of the beautiful Udzungwa Mountains National Park. The lodge provides the only luxurious and exclusive accommodation option in the Udzungwa Mountains area. The hotel is currently under construction and will be opening soon. Currently open and providing a peaceful, convenient and unusual accommodation option is the Udzungwa Forest Campsite which offers a pleasant campsite with excellent facilities including simple but comfortable thatched hut accommodation and well-maintained Western standard showers and toilets.

Hondo Hondo Lodge will provide the highest standard of accommodation available in the area with an excellently equipped bar with a great ambience, and a fine restaurant producing mouth-watering meals. The Udzungwa Forest Lodge is ideally situated for day trip access to the Udzungwa Mountains National Park and also provides a both a great start and end point for the more adventurous who wish to camp overnight within the park itself.

The hotel is close to the National Park Headquarters, near the village of Mangula in the lush green Kilombero Valley. The lodge's comfortable well-appointed rooms and breath-taking views across the forest canopy and out over the highly fertile Kilombero Valley make the Udzungwa Forest Lodge a fantastic place to stay in its own right.

A range of activities are available here in the Udzungwa Mountains National Park, including some of Tanzania's finest birdwatching opportunities, hiking and trekking trails, swimming in waterfall plunge pools, and the chance to spot some of the area's remarkable primates such as the Black and White Colobus and the rare and endemic Sanje Crested Mangebey and the recently discovered Highland Mangeby.

After an exciting day's activities, enjoy the luxury of birdwatching and primate watching from the comfort of the hotel itself. Relax over sunset drinks on the terrace of the Udzungwa Forest Lodge bar, surrounded by the calls of Crowned, Silver-cheeked, and Trumpeter Hornbills from which the lodge takes its local name. Watching the troops of Colobus swing through the trees of the nearby forest canopy around sunset is a unique and exciting experience.