Kenya: Great Serengeti Migration

Nairobi Serena Hotel

Serena Mountain Lodge

The Serena Mountain Lodge, which stands 7,200 feet up on the slopes of snow-capped Mount Kenya, and is surrounded by dense rain forest, and has the area’s highest record of animal “visits” and sightings. All rooms, though rustic, are very clean and comfortable with en-suite facilities and spacious verandahs -often ‘patronized’ by Colobus and Sykes monkeys (who may try to steal your food as you relax!).

The main public areas of the lodge overlook an illuminated waterhole frequented by a myriad of wildlife. The area comes alive at dusk with the cacophony of creatures of all sizes. Game viewing, throughout evening and night, includes elephants, buffalos, rhinos, giant forest hogs, waterbucks, and if you we are lucky, leopard and lions. There is also a tunnel leading to a photo-hide, which offers spectacular viewing and close-up photographic opportunities just yards away from the wildlife at the water hole.

Mara Serena Safari Lodge

The Mara Serena Safari Lodge is an interpretation of a traditional Maasai Manyatta village. All guestrooms have been styled to mirror the circular motif of a traditional Maasai Manyatta village of domed huts. The wide-spaced and secluded rooms have been individually styled in exuberant bush colors and feature large spacious en-suite bathrooms. It is set on the saddle of a hill where it overlooks the 695 square miles of rolling plains, woodlands and rivers that make up the Maasai Mara Triangle – one of the world's richest wildlife sanctuaries. No other lodge has such a spectacular view of the surrounding landscape or the wildlife and birdlife that inhabit it. It is on this very terrain stretching endlessly before the lodge where the annual migration takes place, where millions of wildebeest, zebra and gazelle traverse the landscape to feed on the rich new grass and give birth to their young.