• Two armchairs on Treehouse Moja’s deck facing sunset over the sea, framed by the branches of its baobab.
    Moja Treehouse

Treehouse Moja

Perched high in an ancient baobab, Moja looks out over the mangroves to the ocean and Kinasi Pass. This baobab seems to have taken on the spirit of a mangrove: its roots reach down into the sea. A spacious deck wraps all the way around the trunk, and at night you can watch fireflies glowing over the mangroves below. You may even share the tree with its other residents, as fish eagles and kites sometimes nest in its branches.

It was here that the Chole Mjini treehouses began. Moja, house number one, still offers the experience that started it all: a home in the canopy of a living tree, open to the breeze and the birds.

Up in the treehouse you have an ensuite toilet and two sinks. The open-air shower, a personal favorite of ours, is below the house at ground level, tucked into a bamboo thicket under the sky.

Like every house at Chole Mjini, Moja was built by hand by Chole craftsmen (“fundis”) using traditional hand tools, from locally sourced wood, makuti roofing, reed mats and coconut rope, with no concrete.

Sandy path lit by small lamps at night, leading to Treehouse Moja’s wooden sign Treehouse Moja nestled in the branches of an ancient baobab, seen from a drone Moja’s deck built around the baobab’s trunk, with a hammock and two armchairs looking out to sea Cups set out on Moja’s deck beside the baobab, looking over the mangroves to the sea Sunset over the ocean on Moja’s deck beside the baobab trunk Inside Treehouse Moja: wooden floors, rope railings and the bathroom area under a thatched roof The bed in Treehouse Moja under a white mosquito net, with the bathroom mirrors behind Moja’s bed made up with white sheets, a folded striped cloth and pink flowers Two white basins on a wooden counter in Treehouse Moja’s bathroom, open to the trees The toilet in Treehouse Moja, screened by woven panels beside a carved wooden mask View through the treetops to the sea, with a thatched treehouse half hidden in the forest

Details

Sleeps: 2

Amenities

  • Ensuite toilet
  • Ensuite sinks (2)
  • Open-air garden shower