LAKE MANYARA TREE LODGE

Lake Manyara Tree Lodge is the only lodge in Lake Manyara National Park and it offers an exclusive wildlife experience. The park is famous for its tree climbing lions, large herds of elephant and flamingo. The lodges offers spectacular Rift Valley views

Accommodation:
Ten elegant stilted tree houses are cradled in the boughs of mahogany trees, ensuring privacy for all guests. Built of timber and makuti (palm fronds), the interiors are bleached, earthy and stylishly understated. Rooms are spacious with sitting areas and viewing decks. Ensuite bathrooms with a bath, outdoor shower, twin hand basins and private w.c. Guest areas are intimate and stylish, and feature an interactive kitchen. The sitting and dining areas overlook a charming forest boma lined with ngalawas (dugout canoes). The Lodge has a Safari Shop featuring signature community craft work and a range of lodge branded safari clothing.

Recreation:
Each suite is a lofty tree house with private veranda and large windows that open up to the lush forest, welcoming in the sights and sounds of the African bush. Woodchip paths and natural branch railings blur the edges between the natural and the manmade, while wooden interiors and thatched roofs invite the surrounding forest indoors. Spacious bedrooms and sitting rooms float in a sea of green, opening up onto a leafy canopy. Even a soak in the large, free-standing tub offers a panoramic view, with an open air shower behind a simple bamboo screen.

Facilities:
- The lodge pool beckons like a cool oasis in an ocean of shady green.
- Generous decks suspended above the forest floor open up to a wooded embrace.
- Split level sitting and dining rooms combine with high thatched ceilings to create a sense of space, while warm wood interiors and understated sofas carve out cosy corners.
- Tantalising aromas drift from the open, interactive kitchen, luring guests to watch as simple but delicious meals are prepared. The theatre of the open kitchen is translated into the drama of the dining boma, encircled by a tall fence of gnarled wood.

LAKE MANYARA HOTEL

Lake Manyara Hotel is located on the very edge of the vertiginous western escarpment of the Rift Valley, in the small breathtaking Lake Manyara National Park, an immense natural richness.

With elegantly designed buildings, its authentic traditional African style decorations create a unique atmosphere that perfectly combines extreme tranquillity with the best of adventure. The hotel offers an unforgettable Safari Experience from its privileged location.

The hotel is just 125 Km from Arusha (1 hour? drive), 355 km from Namanga (Kenyan Border) and 165 km from Kilimanjaro International Airport.

Recreation:
Accommodation:
The hotel offers 100 spacious guestrooms, each with a private balcony presenting magnificent views over the "Pink (Flamingo) Lake" and the Rift Valley.
70 Twin Rooms
28 Double Rooms (with one double bed) &
2 Suites

Each room is tastefully decorated in authentic African style, and is fully equipped with:

• En-suite bathrooms with Shower Attachments & Bathtub
• Central Heating System
• Beds provided with Mosquito Nets
• Air Vents
• Wake?Up Calls made only on request

3 rooms are Intercommunicating, specially designed for families and 8 others are Deluxe Rooms.
Third beds, as well as limited baby cots are available on request.

Facilities:

• A Restaurant & Bar overlooking the ?Pink Lake? for Exotic Foods and Drinks
• TV Lounge
• Professional Nurse on Standby for Medical Assistance
• Housekeeping Services
• Laundry<
• Babysitting (On Request)
• Swimming Pool
• Safety Deposit Boxes at Reception
• Telephone, Fax, Radio & Mailing Communication Facilities
• Currency Exchange Service
• Boutique & Souvenir Shop
• Landing Airstrip

EUNOTO LODGE

E Unoto Retreat offers a relaxing escape in a setting of natural beauty in Tanzania and is the ideal location for your next holiday, romantic getaway or safari.

This five-star lodge is just one hour drive from Arusha and is in close proximity to famous national parks including Ngorongoro Crater, Tarangire and Lake Manyara.

Recreation:
Accommodation:
The E Unoto offers superb accommodation in 25 spacious bungalows.

All bungalows have been designed in Masai style and decorated internally with exquisite furnishings and carvings continuing the Masai theme.

Each bungalow is a private suite with its own balcony offering panoramic views of Lake Miwaleni and the towering escarpment.

4 of the bungalows are ideal honeymoon suites whilst another 4 are well designed to comfortably accommodate guests in wheel chairs.

Room amenities include:

• Over sized king/queen beds
• Relaxing leather armchairs
• Separate shower and toilet facilities
• A coffee table that easily converts from backgammon to a checker board
• Writing table
• Mosquito nets
• Telephone

Facilities:

• Open-air Restaurant & Bar overlooking the lake
• Tempting children’s menu
• Butler Service
• Swimming Pool
• Night Entertainment
• Outdoor Sports & Activities
• Conference Facilities

LAKE MANYARA SERENA LODGE

Lake Manyara Serena Safari Lodge stands high on the bluff of a dramatic ochre and terracotta streaked cliff above the flamingo-frosted expanse of Lake Manyara’s gleaming alkaline waters. The Lodge commands panoramic views across the volcano-studded floor of the Great Rift Valley.

The lodge is designed to reflect the brilliance of Lake Manyara’s unique bird life and draw on an inspirational architectural motif that melds swooping avian curves with the gentle concentric patterns of traditional Masai ’Bomas’ (encampments).

The ambiance of the Lodge is a fusion of lakeside tranquility, towering volcanic splendour and adventure-packed sporting activity.

Recreation:
Accommodation:
The circular, closely-thatched rooms echo the traditional Maasai Boma style of construction whilst featuring a vibrant interior design concept that reflects the Masai peoples abiding love of brilliant scarlet-and-indigo checked *Shukas* (cloaks) and bright yellow, white, blue and orange bead work.
In total the lodge has 54 rooms:

1 executive room 12 triple rooms 41 twin rooms

Each room has telephones and a private veranda and breathtaking views of the shimmering reaches of the flamingo-frosted Lake.

KIRURUMU TENTED CAMP

Kirurumu is a small tented lodge located outside Lake Manyara National Park. With the most stunning views of virtually anywhere in Tanzania, Kirurumu looks out over the rift valley and down on to Lake Manyara itself – a simply beautiful spot!
The Facts

• 22 tented rooms
• stunning views
• good cultural interaction
• good for children
• can be used for Manyara and Ngorongoro

The Detail
On the edge of Lake Manyara National Park is run by Hoopoe Adventure Tours, taking its name from a Bantu word meaning echoing waters, describing the sound of the river running nearby.

Kirurumu is the only owner-run safari camp at Lake Manyara and the most atmospheric, with permanent tented rooms built onto a stilted wooden base, designed to give each a private bush enclosure with its own undisturbed view. Wonderfully hot and powerful showers with solar-heated spring water in every tent make it hard to fault.
The open-sided dining room and naturally sanded wood and rock-enclosed bar also make the most of the location, and food and service are excellent. Meals rely heavily on fresh fruit and produce, and vegetables and herbs from their own organic garden, and are greatly enhanced by a selection of fine wines from the bar.

The honeymoon tent is hopelessly romantic, with a wide wooden bed under voluminous nets. Naturally there is no reason that such treatment should be exclusively for the honeymooning few? Its position outside the Park means that Kirurumu is free from Park rules, and the lodge specializes in botanical walks through the surrounding bush with Maasai guides to describe the medicinal uses of plants. The many resident bird species will delight watchers, and a watering hole and extensive bird list help you spot and name them.

Our view:
This is a really great little camp, even the somewhat bizarre orange bathrooms provide character! We really like this place - a refreshing option for those of us who do not want to stay in the large hotels for the duration of their Northern circuit safari. The views are simply stunning and the local village near the camp is a great place to explore.