Nyungwe, RWANDA (02/2010) Mantis, manager and marketing company of luxury boutique hotels and game reserves across South Africa and Europe, is making its first foray into Rwanda with a stunning five-star lodge scheduled to open on March 14th of this year. The Nyungwe Forest Lodge is set in Rwanda’s mountainous southwest, the largest remaining extension of uninterrupted montane forest in Central and East Africa, and one of the most ancient.
Mantis’ Nyungwe Forest Lodge is the only five-star accommodation within the Nyungwe National Park area. It lies in a tea plantation on the edge of the Nyungwe closed-canopy rain forest. Each of the lodge’s 24 sumptuous suites has a private deck affording views of the vast forest terrain. The lodge boasts a bistro with an outdoor heated swimming pool, a boma for al fresco dining and sundowners, a restaurant with private terrace, a tea lounge and bar, and a relaxation retreat comprising two treatment rooms, a Jacuzzi and a fitness center equipped with treadmill, cycle and weights. The lodge also offers state-of-the-art wi-fi and exclusive conference facilities accommodating up to 18 delegates. The main lodge is wheelchair friendly.
Suites are air-conditioned and appointed with a fireplace for cooler months, en-suite bathroom with shower, and a flat screen TV with digital satellite channels.
The architecture of the lodge is loosely based on traditional Rwandese buildings and, like them, is designed to blend with the landscape. To the extent possible local materials and construction methods have been used. The resulting spaces are comfortable and elegant, and celebrate the uniqueness of the site, an area so old it predates the last Ice Age. Known for its rugged terrain and complex mosaic of vegetation, from tall, dense forests to open, flower-filled marshes, the forest is home to more than 200 different tree species and a myriad of flowering plants. Found here are the African mahogany, Mulanje cedar, the evergreen Waterberry tree, the other-worldly giant lobelia and a host of colorful orchids.
Nyungwe is an ideal area for walking and trekking, rife as it is with no fewer than 13 species of primates ranging from chimpanzees (man’s closest living relative) to acrobatic black and white colobus monkeys, from blue and golden monkeys to the baboon-like Grey-cheeked Mangabeys. Guests can walk to the Kamicanovu swamp or enjoy the extensive network of well-maintained walking trails leading through the forest to a variety of waterfalls and viewing points for beholding old mahoganies, ebonies, giant tree ferns, orchids and other epiphytes, brightly-colored birds, butterflies and some larger forest residents.
The Nyungwe Forest Lodge is an hour’s drive from the town of Kamembe on the shore of Lake Kivu.
Nyungwe Forest Lodge is managed and marketed by the Mantis Group.
Rate per person per night of US$400 includes accommodation, breakfast and dinner, selected beverages and VAT.
For reservations, contact 041-407-1000 or email: reservations@mantiscollection.com or visit:
www.mantiscollection.com
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