Serengeti Serena Lodge is set high on a hill with breathtaking vistas of a landscape teeming with game. The wildlife defines the Serengeti - countless zebra, buffalo, gazelle, wildebeest, and other species make it their home. Big game feed in full view of the lodge itself.

The terrain is the main stage for the great wildebeest migrations, an awesome spectacle involving millions of these beasts. Almost nowhere else in Africa can the visitor expect to see more big game than in the terrain immediately surrounding Serengeti Serena Lodge. In the center of the plain, set high on hill overlooking the sweeping grasslands that are the habitat of countless zebra, gazelle, wildebeest, and numerous other species, the Lodge enjoys an incomparable location.

The lodge design is simple but stunning. From the overall impression to the smallest detail, the lodge is rich in local atmosphere created by indigenous handicrafts and art.

Accommodation: 66 luxury guest rooms

Inspired by a traditional African village, separate rondavel "huts" house the luxury guest rooms.The uniquely crafted bedroom units maximize the use of local materials in order to blend with their surroundings. Each bedroom has its own self-contained private shower-room and toilet as well as its own balcony with views across the Serengeti plains.

Facilities/Activities

The lodge's cuisine is focused on its use of fresh food that is sumptuously prepared and cooked in front of the guests. The full-service lounge and bar serves fresh fruit juices, soft drinks, tea and coffee, cocktails, wines, spirits and liqueurs.

UNIQUE OFFERINGS AND EVENTS

Hot air balloon safaris can be booked in advance or at the balloon safari reservation desk in the lodge. These unique and exciting adventures require a very early morning start and a one-hour drive to the balloon's take-off point. After "adventures aloft" and the thrill of viewing the plains game from the air (the flight is usually of a forty minute duration), a champagne breakfast is served under the shade of an acacia tree - in the midst of the Serengeti.www.balloonsafaris.com

Al-fresco, catered poolside barbecue can be pre-booked for groups of ten or more.

Wilderness breakfasts and luncheons; Sunset cocktails by the pool;

In the evening, traditional dancing and guitarist and daily slide presentation by a resident naturalist.

GAME VIEWING

Game drives across the rich plains of the Serengeti are scheduled daily.

Early morning from 6:30 am to 8:30 am
Morning from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Afternoon from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

This is a superb area for seeing predators such as lions, leopards, and cheetahs, along with giraffes, topis, bohor reedbucks, defassa waterbucks, buffalos and impalas. The kopjes host hyraxes, dwarf mongooses, and red-headed agamas. The open grassland is home to large groups of Thomson's and Grant's gazelles, spotted hyenas, jackals, and such birds as the double-banded courser, yellow-throated sandgrouse, red-capped lark, Fischer's sparrow-lark, and capped wheatear.

More than a million wildebeest, accompanied by hundreds of thousands of other herbivores, descend upon the short-grass plains of the southeastern Serengeti at the start of the rainy season around December. After calving in January and February, they scatter over the southern and central plains. By May the rain ends, the grass has been reduced to stubble, and the animals begin their long march to dry-season grazing grounds near the permanent waters of the Serengeti's northern woodlands and Kenya's Masai Mara. Reaching these destinations by July or so, they remain until October, when they head back to the southeastern Serengeti.

GETTING THERE

Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge is 350 kilometers from Arusha - approximately an 8 hour drive (with a suggested overnight stop) or a 60 minute flight from Arusha to the Seronera airstrip. Transfer time from Seronera airstrip to Serengeti Serena is approximately 45 minutes

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