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