| Why you should take a close look at Amboseli | | | | hot towel to wipe your face. |
| Serena Safari Lodge if you are Planning a | | | | |
| Honeymoon in Kenya | | | | You will also be guarded by Maasai warriors, |
| | | | although their main function is probably to |
| A Honeymoon in Kenya, sounds like, and would | | | | keep the very friendly monkeys at bay. |
| be like a dream come true. Where do you go, | | | | |
| and where do you stay when you are looking to | | | | The open air dining room overlooks the salt |
| take a luxury safari African vacation in | | | | lick and floodlit waterhole, much visited by |
| Kenya? This is the key question, and at least | | | | the big game, and here you will eat |
| part of the answer could well lie in choosing | | | | international food, buffets, barbeques and |
| Amboseli National Park as a favourite place | | | | authentic African cuisine. The standard of |
| to get photographs of elephants against a | | | | the food is what you would be looking for on |
| backdrop of the snow capped Mount | | | | an African Safari vacation, both fresh, and |
| Kilimanjaro. Amboseli is easily reached from | | | | with great variety of choice. Breakfast and |
| Nairobi and one of the best, if not the best | | | | lunch are buffet and dinner is a combination |
| place to stay is the Amboseli Serena Safari | | | | of buffet and menu. |
| Lodge. | | | | |
| | | | There is a bar next to the dining room, and |
| Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge is situated in | | | | another small bar by the swimming pool, which |
| the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, next to a | | | | is by the way ice cold!! By the pool there is |
| spring and beside giant Acacia trees, with | | | | a supply of fresh clean towels, and sunbeds. |
| stunning views of the mountain, and | | | | |
| surrounded by the kind of big game that makes | | | | You can sit on the verandah which overlooks |
| the lodge such a great place to go for a | | | | the pool and the gardens and get some really |
| honeymoon in Kenya. | | | | excellent game viewing from there. One of the |
| | | | key selling points for this safari lodge is |
| You will almost certainly see as well as the | | | | how good it is for access to the Amboseli |
| elephants, animals such as lions, buffalos, | | | | game park, and you get the chance of three |
| cheetahs, giraffes, baboons, gazelles and | | | | game drives a day in your own vehicle with |
| wildebeest. In fact you are very likely to | | | | your own driver. |
| see Elephant family groups up close and | | | | |
| personal in the grounds very close to the | | | | Apart from the game drives, you can also have |
| lodge, as there are more wild elephants in | | | | bush dinners, sundowners at Observation Hill, |
| Amboseli than almost anywhere else in Africa. | | | | private picnics, lunch boxes, personal game |
| | | | drives. There are also daily guided nature |
| Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge is designed to | | | | and bird spotting walks through the grounds |
| imitate the native architecture, so it sits | | | | of Amboseli Serena Lodge with the resident |
| well with its surroundings, and the room | | | | naturalist, plus daily lectures on aspects of |
| interiors, which are all different, have a | | | | the Maasai culture. |
| definite African feel to them, with the walls | | | | |
| covered in murals and African memorabilia. | | | | Importantly there is full medical back up and |
| | | | emergency evacuation facilities. |
| There are in all 96 guest rooms, with 17 | | | | |
| pairs which are interconnecting. Unlike some | | | | Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge is just one of a |
| lodges Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge has 24 | | | | group of Serena Safari Lodges, but is ideally |
| hour electricity which is a bonus on any | | | | situated for game viewing. It would be a good |
| Kenya Safari vacation, but the outstanding | | | | place to stop for a couple of nights on any |
| thing is undoubtedly the cheerful, willing, | | | | Honeymoon in Kenya. Many families do come |
| and efficient staff, who offered great | | | | here as well as part of their holiday in |
| service at all times. What is especially good | | | | Kenya or as part of a bigger luxury African |
| is the welcome back from a game drive with a | | | | Safari. |