Wellness
Back at the lodge, Chef Jacques
discusses lunch at breakfast, where
one must avail of super smoothies
like strawberry-coconut-banana.
Chef lately abandoned Singita for
olori, and when you have staff
voluntarily leaving Singita, you know
Molori’s doing something special. At
Molori, suppers include four-course
bush-dinners in the jungle or briers
in the lodge’s boma (an al-freso
enclosure), where Chef Jacques
sprawls South African specialities
and “boma fide” frikaans malva
pudding, macerated in Amarula
liqueur and Roibos tea.
But why dine out when you can dine
in Metsi’s arms? Ah Metsi, alright,
she isn’t quite a Bond Girl, or even
a girl. But this preposterously
lavish presidential suite has all
the seductions of a Bond Girl. Think
crystal chandeliers swooping down
from a thatch roof or hanging from
trees. “Metsi” means “water” in
Setswana, and the outdoors ows
into the indoors where trees thrust
out behind sofas. There’s also a
uidity of styles, as anti ues irt
with avant-garde, and a stupendous
Chinese drum is stationed by
indigenous African art. Stately
arm-chairs Marie Antoinette
might’ve sat in laze by
contemporary-cool, red-as-passion
chairs made of reed and cane. The
study has a chair in zebra hide, the
deck is sleek with white-leathered
swings and suave chaise-lounge. The
bedroom boasts the most sumptuous
bed in all South Africa, whilst three
bathrooms stock enough Aqua di
arma toiletries to fill a bouti ue.
The main bathroom is a “living room”,
with a velvet sofa longer than a
89
train, and not a walk-in but a “sit-in”
wardrobe with a splendid ottoman...
The pool, the size of a lake, has a
heated jacuzzi and a resident frog
or two. t breakfast on the terrific
terraces, you might be combating
yellow-beaked hornbills that purloin
your cookies as plumed plethora
bedazzle. The lodge has a hillocked
spa, but enjoy signature Molori
facials and Molori massages within
the luxuries of your butlered suite.
There’s a sense of irreverence,
abandon and irony about this place.
It’s outrageously over the top, but
pulled off with panache.