kizikula

Coral limestone walls built from material quarried on the island give this small boutique resort on Zanzibar's south coast a texture you want to run your hands across. Raw concrete, local textiles, and wooden furniture do the rest. A dramatic staircase drops straight into clear Indian Ocean water below the infinity pool. The team behind it pulled in architects from Mumbai and Auckland, and it shows in the best possible, unhypey way.

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