The Highbridge Guest Lodge aspires to be a space that welcomes varying experiences through which cultural differences can be bridged and our shared human values celebrated. In essence, the names of our individually named rooms have been selected with the intention of celebrating this cultural fusion.
Zambezi
This room is named after the Zambezi River. Zambezi means “Great River” in the language of the Tonga peoples and the river is Africa’s fourth longest..
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Nile
In reverence of the long and rich traditions of the Nile valley, we have chosen the name for one of our rooms. The river Nile is the longest river in Afr..
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Timbuktu
The city of Timbuktu, after which one of our rooms is named, rests at the footsteps of the Sahara Desert. It has spawned a culture and civilization that ..
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Ile-Ife
We have named a room after Ile-Ife to honour another aspect of Africa’s civilization. Ile-Ife, which literally means “place of dispersion”, is an old..
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Odwira
Odwira is a festival that celebrates new harvests. It qualifies as a name of a room in the Highbridge because it tells us to nurture our earth as the gatew..
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Damba
Damba is a shared festival of celebration that annually gathers peoples of different tongues and traditions in Northern Ghana to honor spirituality and app..
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Kangari
Kangari deserves a place at the Highbridge in respect of the ethos of conservation. Kangari is a non-hunting forest reserve located in Sierra Leone. It bec..
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Hibiscus
The Hibiscus as a room name is chosen for its adornment of our landscape. The Hibiscus is part of a genus of colourful flowering plants found across the di..
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Zanzibar
This room is named in celebration of Zanzibar; an island city nestled in the Indian Ocean, which bears testimony to antiquity. Its milieu, sounds and flavo..
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Serengeti
The Serengeti National Park, after which we’ve named another of our rooms, typifies Africa’s rich grasslands. Its sunburnt savannah is at sunset flecke..
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Homowo
We selected the Homowo Festival, celebrated by the Ga peoples of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana, to represent a room because it symbolizes triumph and r..
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Baobab
We choose the Baobab tree as a room name to applaud this towering tree. The Baobab is an imposing icon of Africa’s savannah that symbolizes life, enduran..
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