ABOUT
MEET YOUR HOSTS
Your hosts Adelline and Steven and their daughter Kitso and son Luka wish you a warm welcome.
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ADELLINE (LAW SCHOOL TO CHEF)
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Adelline was born in Johannesburg (South Africa) where she studied law and started working on human rights projects. After this she was active as a corporate consultant for employee development and she ran a shop with environmentally friendly baby products. She recently decided to go back to school to complete a professional cookery course and build on her passion to share tools for sustainable healthy living.
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STEVEN (ECONOMIST to YOGA TEACHER)
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Steven was born in Belgium where he obtained his Masters in Economics and Commercial Engineering. He joined a corporate company in Antwerp who sent him out to the African continent to develop new business, first based in Lagos (Nigeria) and later in Johannesburg (South Africa). There he met Adelline who dragged him to a yoga class. Fast forward a few years later and Steven quit his corporate job as managing director to become a full time yoga teacher.
WHAT YOU CAN LOOK FORWARD TO
Yoga Studio
Bar & Restaurant
Direct Beach Access
Swimming Pool
Massage & Spa
Kids Activities
Free Wifi
Accessible by All Vehicles (no 4x4 needed)
Parking on Site
Organic Garden
WHAT KUMBA MEANS
Sanskrit
The place of transformation. Kumbha = pottery in the literal sense or the womb where life is created in the symbolic sense
Swahili
Creativity.
Kuumba = to always do as much as we can to leave our community more beautiful than when we inherited it
Xi-Tsonga
All-inclusive, all-encompassing, all-embracing
Kongo
To marvel, to be amazed, to be surprised, to wonder
Bitonga
In the local language around Inhambane, kumba simply means pig. Come meet our two resident pigs who enjoy all the food scraps!