Serena Lodges

... we look right out on to Lake Manyara.  The service, food and accommodation at the lodge is right up there with the rest of the Serena lodges we have been to on this portion of our trip. After lunch we head out for a game drive.  The main feature ...

... value, as some higher priced quotes were for just one   Wildlife lodges are perfectly acceptable, don't bother paying double for serena lodges or luxury tented camps unless that's your thing   6 days/5 nights was great, can't see much need ...

... 's very dark and there are so many wild animals around due to the lodge's location and they do come into and around the lodges sometimes. After a night's rest we took of for a "Game drive" all day long.... One way I would describe the Safari experience ...

... problem.) Over 100miles of white flat salt; cracked into hexagonal one-metre plaques. Staying for 2 nights in isolated primitive lodges-in dormitories,on raised 40cms.salt beds ( mattresses and sheets mind!)-with generator power shutting off at 9pm after ...

... ; The trip took 5 hours and our elevation changed from over 2195 m. (7200 ft.) to just under 853 m. (2800 ft.).  These lodges are excellent facilities, similar to the Jasper Park Lodge, but with the African motif and design of course, and the food is ...

... up. I did see one, they get up back end first, surprisingly graceful for something that size. The lodge tonight - the Serengeti Serena lodge has rooms designed like Masai huts (but thank goodness not built like them). As with Kikoti, we need a guard ...

... animals , which we soon found .   We moved on after a couple of days to the next lodge which was the Amboseli serena lodge , another grand building , with all the comfort you could wish for. When seeing how many Kenyan people  lived it made you ...

... she said before she left. We were touched.  A complaint like ours would probably have been brushed aside in most forest lodges and hotels (apart possibly from ‘5-stars’) back in India – especially (and most certainly) in those ...

... Kenya we travelled through) to inform them about our delayed arrival and to request them to hold lunch for us (meals in forest lodges are served during fixed timings).  I was more worried about starting our first game drive in Tsavo on time at four ...

... the waterhole.  Due to constraint of space (Mountain Lodge, being on stilts, per force is not as sprawling as the other game lodges we stayed in), tables may have to be shared.  (At dinner, we did share a large table with a couple of British ...

... than 5 days contact Tanzania operator for customised price. Is up to you now to choose to hire a car with a Driver or without. Lodges and Hotels in the National Parks are a bit higher than those in Town. Minimum cost for Double room Lodge in full Board ...

... dry and sunny. And at the end near our destination, which was Portillo, a small enclave of metal buildings and several small lodges a major ski village if the photos of global ski teams were any indication. Towards the end of the steep climb near ...

... past weekend we all went on a whirlwind trip to Lake Naivasha and Hell's Gate National Park.  The Pharmacy students from Purdue (Serena, Melissa, Lisa, Emily and Christa), the IU Medical Students (Don, Andy, Nadine, Keith and Matt) and Kelvin and I ...