5.2.2025: A day in the Original Maasai Lodge with a walk around the lodge.
Today, I wait for the arrival of friends from Southern Burgenland in the afternoon, all the rest of the holiday will be spent together.
Sunrise behind Kilimandscharo is different every day.
The elefant sculptures near the patio of the restaurants are perfect foregrounds of a photograph of Kilimandscharo at or after sunrise.
The Lobby of the lodge in front, and the restaurant in behind, with the watch tower behind on the highest hill. All the area is sentinelled all day and night, I wouldn´t fancy a hostile encounter with the Maasai watches...
In a short walk, I surround the lodge - once more a picture of Mount Meru, this day without clouds.
From the hill behind the pool you get a view over the buildings around the pool and till Kilimandscharo.
On the prominent hill a bit father behind the pool. Building furniture is easy in Africa: a few branches of tropical hardwood, big nails, ready. Du to the hardness of the wood the chairs are very stable.
These coloured birds are accompanying us many times, they come in groups of up to 15 animals, mostly interested in the crunbles fallen down in the patio area of the the restaurant.
Ink flowers now flowering in the Steppe - so called by the Maasai. I found out the scientific name: Cycnium tubulosum.
Ink flowers (Cycnium tubulosum)
Ink flowers (Cycnium tubulosum)
Since my last stay 2 years ago, this luxury area for up to 7 adults with full service was built, called the Exclusive Kisiwa Boma. It is completely separated from the rest of the lodge, with a separate road and full-service at all meals, so the guests need not leave the area all the time of their stay. As there are no guests present today, Gäste I am allowed to have a look at the area.
The Kisiwa Boma has its own pool ...
... and its own large terrace for meals and comfortable meeting together.
Pool
Several buildings joined together with sleeping rooms and embellished living rooms etc.
Pool, ...
... with the view to Kilimandscharo.
Beautiful interior design
Large bathroom with bathtub
Large, cosy beds in the sleeping rooms.
Fire place on the terrace.
Cleaning is on the way.
Massage area.
Beneath in the Steppe a wonderful patch of flowers - Pentanisia ouranogyne
The Maasai guide called this "bush pumpkin".
A blood lily (fireball - lily, Scadoxus multiflorus) is growing out close to this rock.
In the evening, when the therfmic clouds are collapsing, Kilimandscharo appears in the last of the sunlight.
At this time, the Maasai from the staff of the Original Maasai Lodge dance to sunset on one of the hills of the Original Maasai Lodge (Youtube Video).
Lorli (Loretta) and Wilfried, friends from Unterschützen, have arrived, and we celebrate our reunion with a yummy dinner.