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Nestled amidst lush greenery on the Satemwa Tea Estate, Huntingdon House offers accommodation located in Thyolo, Malawi. The hotel features five luxury, individually decorated suites with private bathrooms. A bungalow is available as well. Guests can conveniently enjoy meals and afternoon tea on-site. Activities include tea tasting, mountain biking, coffee tours, hiking and birding.
One of the not-to-be-missed experiences unique to staying on a tea growing estate. This is a definite for tea enthusiasts and simple occasional tea drinkers alike. Your guide will explain the full process from planting through to harvesting and production whilst titillating your taste buds with various teas, including white,green,black & oolong and other Satemwa specialties.
This can be booked even if you are not staying with us but need to be booked in advance.
We personally think we live in Mountain bike Heaven! There are endless tracks and dirt roads to explore and be prepared for lots of uphills and exiting downhills... We have a selection of mountain bikes available if you don't have your own. You can choose the trail and length of time you wish to be out, while we will provide the bikes, helmets, water bottles and advice about routes and areas to explore. Enjoy!
Though Satemwa is primarily a tea growing estate, we have grown coffee since the -70s. As part of our ongoing program to make the estate more accessible to visitors, we offer a In season guided walk through Satemwa's coffee fields which are wild, open and set in spectacular scenery. The tour highlights all the activities going on at that particular time. The main harvesting season for coffee is between May and late August. If you are a big coffee lover there is always something going on so please ask and we can arrange a tour for you.
With over 105 miles of dirt roads and hundreds more paths and tracks, Satemwa is a fantastic and diverse place to explore on foot. Take a leisurely stroll to one of the streams, meander through the coffee fields or take a hike up to the rock and be awarded with amazing views over the end of the rift valley.
An ornithologists' paradise, the varied vegetation on the estate provides ideal habitats for a variety of Malawi's bird species including the little-known bird of Africa’s disappearing montane evergreen forests, the Thyolo Alethe (Alethe choloensis).
Found in the estate's protected patches of indigenous forests and listed as an endangered species. We are very excited about our birds and we have seen an increase in spices in the last few years. We have our own guide that can take you for a walk any time of the day.
Satemwa has an extensive Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme supporting a number of projects associated with the estate. Sporting activities offer workers a breather after a week of hard work and are popular with various divisions participating in competitive soccer on the estate's football field, a lively event for any spectator! Satemwa Primary School provides education to approximately 900 pupils in partnership with the Malawi Government.
Addressing the extensive deforestation of Malawi has been deemed a priority for the estate's CSR programme. Through regular tree planting on Satemwa, staff members are introduced to more efficient forms of energy for cooking and heating in their communities.