Tree-house #3, at Chole Mjini, is called 'Tatu'. The house on the rocks is reached by passing through a foliage tunnel and is built on two separate levels under two separate roofs, almost like two separate houses joined by a staircase.

The main house is on rocks under a Tamarind tree, close to the ground and the stairs go down from there into the second house that is over the beach in amongst the mangroves. During Spring tides, at Chole Mjini, the water comes right up under the lower house and even, twice a year (March and February) the floor of the lower house gets wet.

It is Jean's personal favorite tree-house at Chole Mjini because he regards it as 'firefly city', and the house which is most in touch with the ocean. It has both really close up and distant sea views, crabs and mudskippers running around meters below the house and even schools of fish under the house sometimes!

Tatu has an infamous swinging bed as well as another double bed (in case one gets sea sick), one in each house, A few years ago Jean chose to spent the night of his 50th birthday in Tatu.

The Shower is in a very pretty rock garden but the toilet is another of the three 'prototypes' at Chole Mjini.

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