Five Elements Africa

Saunas & cold plunges in Mikocheni

Mikocheni is where we build. It is an industrial and light-commercial district behind the peninsula, close enough to the port that a container clears and reaches us the same day.

Mikocheni, Tanzania

What happens here

Timber arrives, is conditioned in this climate rather than a dry one, and is cut, sealed and assembled into panels. Cabins are dry-assembled in full in the yard, photographed, numbered and taken down again before shipping, so nothing is discovered for the first time on a client's deck or on a ferry.

Sealing end grain before assembly rather than after is the single most important thing we do in this building. It is also the step most often skipped elsewhere, and it is why cabins fail on this coast.

Port proximity is the whole logistics advantage

Dar es Salaam handles the great majority of Tanzania's imported cargo, and being twenty minutes from it means heaters, chillers, generators and glass clear and arrive without an inland leg. Everything bound for Zanzibar, Arusha or the parks is consolidated here into single shipments, packed to a checklist and sent once.

Come and see it

We would rather you sat in a cabin than looked at a render. Working sauna, a plunge at temperature and the timber stack are all here, and a visit takes half an hour.

Questions

Mikocheni: what people ask

Can I visit the workshop?

Yes, by arrangement. There is a working sauna and a plunge at temperature.

Do you deliver upcountry from here?

Yes — consolidated single shipments to Arusha, Moshi, the northern circuit and the southern parks.

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