Geima Guesthouse | Eco tourism in rainforest | Geima village near Tiwai Island, Sierra Leone

In the heart of the rainforest
in Sierra Leone

Welcome to Geima

We are a forest community in Tiwai rainforest by the Moa River, part of the Gola-Tiwai UNESCO World Heritage site in Sierra Leone.

Here is the story of how we are building our guesthouse. A traditional building using materials from the forest and river, with some modern comforts.

Opening in September 2026.

We look forward to welcoming you to our village, to stay in our guesthouse, and share our culture and hospitality.

Our dream comes to life

Our whole community came together to get our guesthouse to roof hight. We collected the stones, mined the sand, made the mudbricks. It's being built by the community for the community.

We are thankful to people in neighbouring villages who have helped gather the materials and prepare the land. And to the support of partners, including the Tiwai Island team who will help with our training.

Watch our for our next exciting news about our guesthouse.

How it started, how it continues - our story

Reaching the Roof

Our guesthouse is turning out just we'd planned,, and now we're almost ready to put the roof on. Thanks to the hard work from the villagers, the walls have gone up fast. We've dug a well, and it's being lined with tiles. And we've put up reinforced pillars for the water tank that will supply our guesthouse. Now we're doing one of the most difficult parts of the building. We're getting the solar power equipment we'll need to pump the water into the guesthouse and charge up lig

Our building comes alive

Here’s the first video of our Guesthouse coming to life. Thanks to everyone who made this day possible. Our community came together!

We start to build Our Dream

Such a big day for us! So much hard work and so many hopes have gone into getting to here. We started building our guesthouse on 25 January 2026. Everyone from the village and volunteers from neighbouring communities came to dig out the foundations, lay the stones, bring the mudbricks on the special site we had chosen and cleared. Words cannot do justice. The pictures tell this story for us.

Geima Guesthouse - our picture gallery

Across the Moa River

It's a boat trip across the river to Geima

Geima village

A community with pride in our environment and heritage

Geima sunset