Bila Kofia villa with pool, white Swahili architecture under blue sky

Zanzibar · Private Villa · Sleeps 12

Bila Kofia.A house on the Swahili coast.

An invitation

Six bedrooms. One private pool. A stretch of the Indian Ocean that asks nothing of you.

Bila Kofia — Swahili for "without a hat" — is a private villa kept the way old coastal houses were: cool stone, carved doors, generous shade. Three of the six bedrooms are en suite. The pool is yours alone. The staff is quiet, present, and only there when you want them.

Private pool at Bila Kofia — The private pool, mid-afternoon.

Bedroom opening to the garden — A bedroom that opens to the sea.

Bedrooms

En-suite baths

Sleeps

Private pool

Beyond the gate

Stone Town markets, spice farms, a dhow at sunset.

The island is closer than it sounds. We can arrange every excursion, or none — your call.

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"The kind of place where you forget which day it is by the second morning — and stop counting after the third."

— A recent guest