Tawi Lodge’s secret lies in the small, ‘hidden’ things

I desperately want to imagine somehow our fates are similar.

It is also no coincidence that every cottage has a view of the mountain, whether you are in the bathtub or in your bed.

You will also enjoy the view from the main hotel veranda’s dining room, and from the outside spa room or the hot spring.

They have a bio-pool (environmental pool without salts or chemicals), the only one of its kind in East Africa, I was informed.

In this pool live tiny little fishes who swim with you as you watch the elephants come to water at a watering hole less than 50 metres from the pool.

To complete this paradise feeling is Bahati, a 10-month old eland that was adopted when it was three days old, after being abandoned by its parent. Bahati is perhaps the friendliest eland you will ever meet.

Dinner was served on a long table under a tree enclosed in a traditional boma that looked like a kraal.

A buffet was kept going. Steak sizzled on the grill. House wine was from their cellar and it’s inclusive of the rates, so drink all you can.

Bahati, at some point, wandered into the boma, and one of the women fed her (I want to believe) salad and not tender steak because that would be like eating your own cousin.

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