Tangala House offers luxurious Zambia game lodge accommodation and has 4 bedrooms, 3 of which are en suite, a fourth bathroom, a separate loo, a spacious kitchen/dining room, children's playroom, living room opening onto a thatch veranda, a 'snuggery' with fireplace and a 12m swimming pool.
The house is ideal for families and is designed to keep insects out, with glass windows all round. Apart from offering spacious and tranquil accommodation, large herds of Elephant often come down to drink on the opposite bank of Tangala House and Hippopotamus are regularly seen and heard. There is fantastic birdlife, with over 145 species to date spotted from the kitchen window.
The living room of your Zambia game lodge has a large sofa and 2 armchairs and leads onto a 'snuggery' with satellite TV, video, HiFi and jetmaster fireplace. For communication there are 2 telephones. Most of the rooms have very high thatch ceilings and the passages have large 3-4 metre high 'Moroccan' arches, with one metre thick walls. This all helps to keep the house cool and well ventilated.
The kitchen/dining room is huge, 13m x 6m, with the front wall being taken up by a 5m long window, with a stunning view of the Zambezi. Tangala House is well equipped, with fridge and freezer, fan assisted double oven, gas cooker, ceramic double sinks, a separate drinks fridge and a microwave oven.
The large dining table seats 12 guests. Tangala House comes with one house assistant and 2 grounds men. The house assistant will help with cooking, housekeeping and laundry.
The master bedroom faces the Zambezi River and has a king size teak bed with sitting area and sofa, bathroom with large double bath set into railway sleepers, and shower. Bedroom II also faces the Zambezi River, and has a queen size 4-poster iron bed, with a walk-in bath and shower.
Bedroom III has a king-size teak bed, with walk in bathroom with large double bath and shower. Bedroom IV has twin beds and a bathroom across the passageway, with cast iron bath.
The veranda easily seats 10, and is open thatch with steps onto the lawn and towards the swimming pool and the terrace, which has a railway sleeper picnic table seating eight. The main swimming pool is 11m x 5m, with an extra shallow area for children and bench seating. In front of the house is a grass lawn, which drops one metre to 20 metres of wild riverine grassland and then to the Zambezi River. The house has 250m of private river frontage, with no properties on either side.
