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Tafaria: Meet the man who owns a luxurious castle

Tafaria Castle, Mr George Tafaria Waititu (inset) [Photo: Courtesy]

A person seeing pictures of Tafaria Castle immediately assumes it is a remnant from the early colonial days. It bears a striking resemblance to the castles that dot Europe, the fortified imposing structures built by nobility in the middle ages. But that is all there is, resemblance.

“Nothing delights me more than the change I have seen unfolding in line with my dream that a teacher during my primary school days once dismissed as ‘building castles in the air’. What stands here today is a real castle cutting into the air,” gushes George Tafaria Waititu, the founder of Tafaria Castle.

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