Set high on the saddle of a tree-claded ridge, commanding panoramic views over the endlessly rolling reaches and volcanic reefs of the Serengeti, the Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge is the ultimate fusion of traditional African architecture and world-class style.

Drawing its inspiration from the circular 'Rondavel' dwellings and winding paths of a traditional Maasai village, the Lodge features thickly-thatched, stone-built rooms, spaciously set amongst groves of indigenous trees that are cooled by sparkling streams and papyrus-fringed ponds. A delightful water feature runs through the main public areas, creating a natural source of waterborne plants and provides a home to many indigenous species of reptiles, amphibians and birds.

There are a total of 66 rooms in the hotel. Each room is accommodated in a stone-built, traditionally-thatched 'Rondavel', featuring natural stone bathrooms, wildwood balconies, rope-lashed staircases, leopard-print drapes and intricately carved furniture, the overall effect of which is a unique blend of authentic ethnicity and world-class elegance


Facilities:

• Full housekeeping services (laundry, valet, babysitting, children's menus and dining and shoeshine) plus hairdryers and telephones in all rooms.
• Restaurant preparing fresh food in front of guests.
• Full medical back-up and emergency evacuation facilities.
• Swimming pool
• Beauty treatments, massage and hairdressing
• Extensively stocked Africana Gift Shop
• Internet connectivity and a wide range of board games plus a full library of books on Africa.
• Communication available via telephone, fax and radio
• Express check in and out and 24-hour Forex facilities.
• American Express, MasterCard, Visa and Barclay's credit cards accepted.
• Lunch boxes, fruit, flowers and celebration cakes may be ordered
• Central safety deposit service available, free-of-charge, at the reception desk
• Voltage is 240V in rooms; shaver outlets have both 110V and 240V. Adaptors available at the reception desk
• Lounge and bar serving soft drinks, tea, coffee and alcoholic beverages.

Serengeti Sopa is situated a little way off the beaten track in the vicinity of the Seronera area. Superbly positioned on the Nyarboro Hills in the South West of the Serengeti it has great views of the plains below. Looking out over the seemingly endless Serengeti plains, this hillside lodge is a tranquil oasis. Year round water and the acacia woodland in the area, create an ideal environment for the wide variety of wildlife seen in the vicinity of the lodge.

The lodge was constructed in the intriguing style of a Maasai manyatta, each building with rounded corners & flat roofs. There are 79 luxury suites, each enjoying wall-to-wall carpeting, a private lounge with a mini bar, a bedroom with two queen size beds and ample room for a third, an en-suite bathroom with shaver sockets and a hair dryer, and a private verandah which offers stunning views over the plains.


Facilities:

• Direct-dial satellite telephone facilities
• Satellite television and wildlife-video-film options
• 240 volts, 50 cycles 24 hours a day
• Complimentary bottled mineral water
• Baby sitters
• Curio shop
• Swimming pool
• Conference facilities

Lobo is the main lodge servicing the northern section of the park and is built into a massive kopje, merging completely into the surrounding landscape, which also overlooks one of the most picturesque plains in the Serengeti The lodge offers breathtaking views over the plains and bushy savannah, which is sometimes crossed by herds of buffalo and elephants.

One of the real features of the lodge is this outdoor swimming pool, which was dug into the rock, which looks out over the plains. It has a beautiful lookout post near the swimming pool where you can view the animals grazing in the plains below There are nice paths cut around the main kopje, where hyraxes, pink and purple agama lizards and baboons make interesting watching. The lodge offers 75 rooms, all with en-suite bathrooms. There are also a few self containing suite rooms with a kitchen and a lounge.


Facilities:

• Outdoor swimming pool
• A restaurant situated amidst huge walls of granite
• Sundowner deck on top of kopje
• Game viewing
• Bird watching

Loliondo Camp is situated on the northeastern boundary of the Serengeti and is also close to the southeastern side of the Maasai Mara. It is a small, semi-permanent, luxury tented camp, seasonally erected amongst dramatic granite kopjes, in this vast, lovely and most diverse area, which teems with game The camp is at the base of one of these granite kopjes, which shades the camp from the elements and feeds a local waterhole frequented by game. Resident game is plentiful in the area, drawn mainly during the dry seasons by this nearby waterhole. As this is a completely private area, it is a superb place to really experience Africa - totally removed from any other tourism.

The 5 semi-permanent tents are luxuriously, comfortable and spacious, naturally and tastefully furnished with en-suite bathrooms. All tents offer comfortable wooden beds (twin), luggage rack, table, safari chairs, mats and soft furnishings in individual style. Candles and kerosene lanterns, torch, soap, washbasins, towels and jug water for washing (mineral water for teeth brushing/drinking) are also provided. The tents are spread out throughout the kopje area with the dining tent at the base of the main kopje rock.

• A locally furnished dining tent offering romantic candle lit dinners.
• Campfire area
• Complete privacy

Camp Serengeti South is located among the huge granite boulders of the Mwaki Nyeb Kopjes, in the far southern Serengeti, amid a vast tract of big game country outside the main tourist circuit. It lies about three miles from the boundary between the Maswa Game Reserve and the Serengeti National Park, in a lion-haunted landscape of flat-topped acacias and short grass plains. The Mwaki Kopjes, huge tree-tufted piles of boulders, rise like islands from the sea of grass, affording panoramic views north towards the Gol Mountains and Ngorongoro Crater.


Camp and tents

Camp Serengeti South is a permanent tented camp (10 tents) with amenities consisting of roomy walk-in tents, insect-proofed with mosquito-netted windows and sewn-in floor. Inside, you'll find real twin beds with comfortable foam mattresses, crisp linen and warm blankets. Each tent has bedside lights and a separate bucket for showers with lots of hot water, and a discreet safari toilet with proper toilet seat and soft paper. Your tent also comes replete with table and chairs. Meals are served in well-appointed insect proof dining tents, complete with tables, chairs and attached screen verandah.

• Wildlife walks in the adjacent Maswa Game Reserve

Africa has always been the adventure land of the great explorers. It is here at Kijereshi Tented Camp that you will experience the excitement of living in the wild. The Kijereshi Tented Camp is situated in the western corridor of the Serengeti and in an area of outstanding scenic beauty. It is located in the heart of the big game country - truly a photographer's paradise.


Camp and tents

Kijereshi Tented Camp offers a total of 12 large luxury tents with twin beds, writing desk, chairs and full en-suite bathroom facilities. In addition there is 1 presidential suite, 2 VIP rooms and 2 family units. The camp also offers a swimming pool, a good well stocked bar and a video lounge in which wildlife documentaries are a feature of the evenings entertainment. The superb facilities also include a restaurant serving an excellent international cuisine and buffets.


Facilities:

• A barbecue
• Pool side's snack bar
• TV and wildlife video shows
• Games room
• Swimming pool
• Curio shop
• Conference hall
• Garage and fuel facilities are available

The Kirawira tented camp is built in the remote regions of the Grumeti River - set against the imposing backdrop of the Western Serengeti. The most exclusive of the Serena Group's many safari venues, the exquisite Kirawira tented camp is the epitome of classic safari camping luxury. Here guests experience Africa's majesty as if they are among the first to travel these extraordinary lands. Standing high on a hill with commanding panoramic views over the endlessly rolling reaches and volcanic reefs of the Serengeti National Park, this luxury-tented camp beckons you to experience the soul of the African wilderness.



Camp and tents

Kirawira camp offers a total of 25 luxury-tented rooms (5 king size and 20 twin bedded tents). Each room has a personal valet and has been accommodated in a spacious canvas tent, erected on raised platforms of rope-lashed logs and sheltered by a bush-thatch roof. The décor is a clever blend of classic opulence, featuring generous four-poster beds, hand-made patchwork quilts, steamer-trunk wardrobes and brass lamps Each guest tent include a personal valet and is a private, enclosed suite with shower facilities and a private terrace. Guests enjoy the highest standards of personalized attention, accommodation, elegant dining tents, extensive wine lists and sumptuously creative menus. International cocktails and fine wines can be enjoyed by the campfire or on the 'Sun downer' terrace. Individually tailored game-drives into the wildlife-teeming arena of the sensational Serengeti plains are also on offer. All beverages (alcoholic and non-alcoholic), food, laundry and game drives are included in Kirawira Camp's unique offering.



Facilities:

• Refreshing beauty treatments and relaxing aromatherapy massage
• Currency exchange open 24 hours
• American Express, MasterCard, Visa and Barclays credit cards accepted
• Full medical back-up and emergency evacuation facilities
• Daily laundry/pressing service (complimentary)
• Personal valet service to each tent, plus individual guest departure gifts
• Central safety deposit service
• A library of Africana books
• Extensively stocked gift and safari-requisites tent
• Outdoor swimming pool
• Fully stocked bar with alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks (complimentary)
• 24-hour generator electricity in all tents

Ikoma Safari Camp is situated five minutes from the Ikoma gate to the Serengeti National Park, in a part of the greater Serengeti ecosystem known as the Ikoma Wildlife Area. This area covers approximately 450 sq km and was established as a buffer zone to the Park itself. The camp was awarded a concession for the area to undertake game viewing drives and walks. In this regard, the camp also works in close collaboration with the surrounding local villages and people. Fort Ikoma, now the Serengeti National Park headquarters, is only 17 km to the west of the camp.


Camp and tents

The Ikoma Safari Camp is small, comfortable and secluded. The camp offers a total of 10 spacious tents, all with twin beds and en-suite bathrooms with hot showers and flush toilets. Cool bush-thatched roofs, also providing very useful verandas, shelter all the tents. The camps facilities include a typical "Out of Africa" traditional styled grass thatched bar and dining room. Electricity and the hot water are provided by solar power and an inverter for recharging camera batteries is available. In addition to game drives, game viewing walks and night game drives are also undertaken.

Facilities:

• Well stocked bar
• Thatched dinning room
• Charging facility for camera batteries
• Game drives, night drives and walks

Perfectly sited in a cluster of kopjes, Kusini is a permanent tented camp blended seamlessly into the delicate environment of the predator-rich plains of the far southern Serengeti. Perhaps surprisingly, Kusini sits exclusively in this remote region of the Serengeti, affording guests the rare opportunity for secluded game drives and walking encounters well away from the main tourist circuits. The surrounding Mwaki Kopjes, huge tree-tufted piles of boulders, rise like islands from the sea of grass, affording panoramic views north towards the Gol Mountains and Ngorongoro Crater.

Secluded amongst the rocky outcrops of this private paradise, Kusini's 9 tents feature en-suite bathrooms with showers and elevated terraces overlooking the Serengeti plains. Each tent has mosquito-netted windows, sewn-in floor and an elevated terrace overlooking the Serengeti plains. Inside the tents, you'll find real twin beds with comfortable foam mattresses, crisp linen and warm blankets. Each tent has bedside lights and a separate bucket for showers with lots of hot water, a discreet safari toilet. a table and two safari chairs. For a classic safari experience, you can go for an elegant candlelit meal and safari tales in the dinning tent, have African sundowners or even enjoy a picturesque banquette on top of a nearby kopje


Facilities:

• Library lounge
• Bird watching
• Game viewing at local waterhole
• Dining tent
• Sundowners cocktails or dinner banquets on top of nearby kopje
• Secluded game drives and game walking encounters

Built around an enormous rock kopje in the heart of the Serengeti, the Seronera Wildlife Lodge is the ideal place to follow the migration of the wildebeest. Situated on the edge of the Seronera River, this is the perfect starting point for safaris setting out to discover the fabulous wildlife of Africa. The friendly staff, the hyraxes and mongooses that live in and around the lodge and the nice way the public areas are built around the kopje helps to makes a stay at the lodge a pleasant one.


Lodge and rooms

The Lodge offers 75 self-contained guest rooms with en-suite bathrooms, build in two blocks of two storeys. All rooms have a view over the Serengeti Park, and are fitted with mosquito nets. The Pango lounge bar is quite nice and there is also the Ikoma sundowner bar including a very nice bar terrace offering beautiful views out across the plains to the west.


Facilities:

• Swimming pool
• Bird watching
• Game viewing
• Lunch boxes available on request
• Traditional dance shows
• Small library
• Curio Shop

These campsites are all located in the Seronera area in the Serengeti and belong to the government.


Camps and tents

Only tent accommodation is available at this campsite. Toilets with running water and showers are available. No hot water at any of these campsites (arrangements with nearby Lodge can be made to shower at the lodge). Banda's for cooking is available. We supply comfortable 2-person tents with sleeping mattresses. An experienced cook who accompanies you serves delicious meals and prepares lunch boxes.