The 1968 build Lodge is on a small hill and has a fantastic view over Tsavo East. It doesn’t matter if you are in your room, at the Restaurant or at the Pool. You will never forget the amazing view. Though a tunnel you can go down hill to the water hole and see different animals from close range.
In the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) Africas highest mountain besid a copse of giant Acacia trees and a gently flowing national spring , stands the Amboseli Serena Lodge. Influenced by native Masai architecture, the lodge is in perfect harmony with its enviroment. Guest rooms, individually appointed with authentic Africana and murals painted by a renowned local artist, convey a distanctive Masai Manyatta mood.
The lodge has 96 rooms.
A relaxing swimming pool.
On the north Coast in the Area called Bombululu you find the Bombululu Disalbe Workshops. Here are around 260 Disable Pople who are trained on Jobs, to have a independend future and can work for their own living. They are traind on jewllery, Wood works, Leather and fabric and metall Works. You can visit the Workshops and see the Leather bag manufacture, the screen printing on Textiles (african designs) or very nice wood carvings and african design jewellery. Once you have seen the manufacture you may opt to buy some of the Items you have seen at the Workshops at the very god sorted sales room. After extended shopping you can have a refreshment at the Ziga Restaurant and watch here the fashion show of the Bombululu fashion.
Also they have a culture center opend in 1994 where you can visit six homesteads where they show the houses and living of six different tribes. (here entrance fee is charged).
Bombolulu Workshops has also a Wood workshop in Likoni where they manufature Funiture and metall workshop where they produce three wheeler Wheelchairs for Polio disable people. If you want to support one you can donate the cost of the manuacture at the Bombululu Workshops and they will hand over the Wheelchair to a disabled person.
Also the Port Reiz Polio clinic is part of APDK.
Support these project it is realy great work what they are doing.
The two German missionaries, Johannes Ludwig Krapf and Johannes Rebmann, were sent by the English Church Missionary Society to establish the first mission station in East Africa. They set it up in 1846 in Rabai, about 20 km inland from Mombasa. From this base, they separately searched for other suitable locations for mission stations in the hinterland. Due to limited financial resources, they could not afford large caravans for these exploration treks. The first obstacle was the 150 km wide, waterless belt of desert and thornbush known as the Taru Desert, which had to be crossed. Their initial journeys took them to Sagala and the Taita Hills, where Rebmann sighted the snow-capped Kilimanjaro (now in Tanzania) on May 11, 1848. About a year and a half later, on December 3, 1849, Krapf saw Mount Kenya in the land of the Kamba. In Europe, the news of snow-covered mountains was met with skepticism and not taken seriously.
However, their travel reports sparked interest, and by the mid-19th century, missionary societies became increasingly fascinated with East Africa. They dreamed of creating a chain of mission stations from east to west and hoped to discover Christian tribes allegedly living at the source of the Nile.
These missionaries aimed to convert the pagans to Christianity with the help of these tribes and disrupt the slave trade.
The numerous reports from the missionaries drew many adventurers, fame-seekers, and scientists to the “white spot” (Africa) to solve the mystery of the Nile’s sources. Even the Pharaohs and later the Romans had tried in vain to find this place.
Richard Burton and John Speke set out in 1857 on behalf of the Royal Geographic Society with large carrier columns to find the source. First, they reached Lake Tanganyika, which they initially thought was the source. Burton fell ill along the way, and Speke continued north to investigate a vast water body. In 1859, Speke stood before Lake Nyanza, which he renamed Lake Victoria. His assumption that Lake Victoria was the source of the Nile was correct.
Later, many other Europeans explored the region. The most famous among them were David Livingstone and Stanley. It is essential to remember that these European explorers relied on local Arab caravan leaders and used the established caravan network infrastructure. The Europeans’ achievement was collecting and cataloging information. Ludwig Krapf transformed the local Swahili language into written form.
