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"Greystoke Mahale\nNatural Diversions Abound at a Beach Resort on Tanzania's Lake Tanganyika\nFounded by former auctioneer Roland Purcell, the beach lodge Greystoke Mahale is on Lake Tan-ganyika in Tanzania. Above: The main building, inspired by a thatch-roofed Tongwe chief's hut, functions as a mess hall.\nBen Jackson designed the structures at the lodge, which is in western Tanzania's Mahale Mountains National Park, 60 miles from the nearest road.\nThe striped fabrics in the mess hall and an adjacent lounge came from the tent-makers' souk in Cairo.\n\"Its Robinson Crusoe style makes you feel like you're on an island,\" says Emma Campbell, of Interior Idea, who created the d\u00E9cor.\nPurcell's environmental sensibility is realized in the use of salvaged and plantation-grown woods and solar power.\n\nOne of the lodge's six bandas, all of which are set in the forest line at the edge of the beach.\nThe bandas' interior furnishings\u2014as well as those on the verandas\u2014were crafted out of old dhow wood.\nThe dressing area of a banda continues the primitive but functional aesthetic.\nThe view, at sunset, of a traditional Lake Tanganyika dhow.\nAn after-dinner campfire in front of the mess hall. The deck chairs were made in Zanzibar."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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