Getting around · Lake Manyara
ClassicLake Manyara Serena Safari Lodge
Safari lodge · 67 rooms · Lake Manyara, Tanzania
- Tier
- Classic
- Style
- Safari lodge
- Size
- 67 rooms
- Region
- Lake Manyara
- Nearest airstrip
- Lake Manyara
- Drive from strip
- approx 10 min
A long-established Serena on the Mto wa Mbu escarpment, its whitewashed double-storey rondavels spread along the cliff edge, with an infinity pool that looks straight down into the Rift.
Lake Manyara Serena spreads sixty-seven rooms through circular two-storey rondavels under conical thatch, each with its own small veranda facing the valley. Interiors lean into the lake's birdlife, with Maasai beadwork, hand-woven bird-themed hangings and colours drawn from the flamingos below. Reception, dining and bar are built around the infinity pool at the cliff edge, and the Manyara airstrip is close by, which makes it an easy first or last night on a northern-circuit route.
Flying in
The nearest airstrip is Lake Manyara, about approx 10 min by road from the lodge. See the real fly-in routes and how the rest of the region connects on the Getting Around map.
Open the fly-in mapEach Wildtouch safari is quoted individually — rates depend on your dates, the camps you choose and how it all links together. Wildtouch prices the whole journey, not a per-night sticker.
Safaris that visit Lake Manyara
Lake Manyara Serena Safari Lodge sits in Lake Manyara. These are the routes we run through it — each one rebuilt around you, with your choice of camp.
Other places to stay nearby
andBeyond Lake Manyara Tree Lodge
The only permanent lodge inside Lake Manyara National Park — ten stilted treehouse suites tucked into mahogany forest at the park's remote southern end, reached by a game drive long enough that few visitors ever make it.
LuxuryManyara's Secret
A villa-only lodge on the high ground at Losirwa, where every villa comes with a pool of its own, whether plunge or infinity, a shower open to the sky and a host assigned to it — about fifteen minutes from the park gate.
LuxuryLake Manyara Kilimamoja Lodge
A polished escarpment lodge north of the park with a rim-flow pool, spa and gym, where the view runs out over Lake Manyara and, on a clear morning, as far as Meru and Kilimanjaro.
LuxuryEscarpment Luxury Lodge Manyara
Twenty-eight chalets strung along the rim of the Rift Valley about five kilometres from the park gate, each with a private deck over the escarpment and a Victorian bath set for the view.
ClassicKirurumu Manyara Lodge
A long-standing, unfussy tented lodge on the escarpment, its cottages spaced along the slope among indigenous bush with long views over the lake to Mount Losimingori.
ClassicLake Manyara Tortilis Camp
A ten-tent camp pitched inside the national park itself, about seventeen kilometres in from the gate at the foot of the Rift wall — and unfenced, so the bush comes to you.
ComfortMigunga Tented Camp
A shady, good-value tented camp in a forest of yellow-barked acacia a few minutes from the park's northern entrance — an easy, unpretentious base for a single night on the circuit.