An evening touring Animal Kingdom Lodge (Harkness Hideaway) (33 pics)

In August we got have dinner at Jiko!! So, we made time to take a tour of Animal Kingdom Lodge. We had a blast. AK Lodge is a beautiful resort!
Of course dinner at Jiko was wonderful (it always is). We shopped, walked around the lobby, went outside and looked at the savanna.
We even walked through Boma and Victoria Falls.
At night on the savanna there were cast members with night vision binoculars to see the savanna. That was really cool! I held a bigger scope up to my camera to try to take a night vision picture, but I couldn't get it to work.
Then we were able to find the Royal Asanti suite. I took a picture of the sign for fun.

I'm going to break up the 33 pictures into different posts by subject.
I took all the pictures with the Tokina 11-16 and tried to do 11mm for most shots.

 

Re: An evening touring Animal Kingdom Lodge (33 pics)

Great! A photo retrospective of the Harkness Hideaway by Crag!

 

I like Harkness Hideaway!!! I just changed the name of the thread!

 

Shopping in Zawadi Marketplace

We started out shopping in the Zawadi Marketplace

 

A Stop In Victoria Falls

We walked through Victoria Falls

 

Jiko!!

Then we had dinner at Jiko!!









The open kitchen:


Another detail of the open kitchen:


One of the cooks doing a flatbread:


A quick peek into the main kitchen (check out the tagines in the middle of the counter!):

 

Boma!

We walked through Boma.





Cooking over charcoal!

 

The beautiful lobby at Animal Kingdom Lodge

We spent a lot of time walking around the lobby and all of its various nooks, crannies, and levels.

 

Sunset Room

The sunset room is lovely at night. There was no one there.

 

The Savanna at night at The Animal Kingdom Lodge

Finally the most wonderful part of the night. The breeze was blowing and it was a nice summer night! A castmember told us the orange cast in the sky is from Animal Kingdom Park.












Thats It!!!

 

darn, craig, these are some of your best stuff yet. congrats!

 

Probably the lights from the Animal Kingdom's parking lot. I know the lights in the AKL's parking lot cast an orange glow

 

a lot of the lighting in the park is tungsten based so as to have a natural look instead of neon or fluorescent.

 

Thanks for the compliments everybody. Dina and I had a great night at AKL!

About the sky, the cast member told us it was the parking lot lights! This was the night TS Fay was coming so the night was very humid and the clouds were VERY low. It rained off and on the whole time we were there. I believe this caused the lights to show up much more than usual. It was really cool. It looked like the "Savanna" was on fire. I felt like were in an old movie!

Thanks Tim, Its always great to get good feedback from you!!