20 September 2011

Tanzania, Lake Manyara, Serena Safari Lodge

What a pool, what a pool, what a pool, what a mighty good pool!

I have a soft spot for infinity pools... The Serena Safari Lodge one overlooking Lake Manyara National Park is just ... great and an absolute perk.










http://www.serenahotels.com/serenalakemanyara/default-en.html

The Serena hotel group offers luxurious accomodation in Africa and the Middle East, in Tanzania they have several really nices lodges. It's perhaps a bit more hotel chain and a bit less boutique. But let me give a bit of background...When we were planning our honeymoon in Tanzania we came across the fact that the local Safari lodging market can be divided into 3 levels: good, great and top of the bill. Unfortunately we started to look at http://www.andbeyondafrica.com/ (= extremely top of the bill, but extremely 'out of africa' all you would fantasise of and more ....) so we were spoiled to the bone when looking at alternatives... just take a look at Lake Manyara Tree House, Klein's camp or Grumeti in the Serengeti, the Ngorongoro Crater lodge and you will understand what I am talking about, all amazing... but incredibly expensive..... and at some point you have to stop using the sentence 'It's our honeymoon, we will only do this once, so let's forget about the price tag'... : ) In the end we decided to make a mixture of the 3 levels, we started in a Sopa Safari lodge (good), stayed in several Serena Lodges (great) and stayed one night in the Ngorongoro Crater lodge (top of the bill). This combination - and especially in this order- was wonderfull and we enjoyed every place we stayed in for its specific charm.

Lake Manyara National Park





















The Serena lodges in Lake Manyara and Serengeti are winners as not only the location is great and the view breath taking, these lodges consist of individual typical African 'rondavels' with a central base camp with dining room, bar, veranda and pool. This increases the Charm and Safari experience factor. The interior is perhaps not the most featured in International Interior Design Magazines, the exterior of the Lake Manyara Serena lodge is really lovely and romantic with panoramic views and of course ... this small but fantastic pool.

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