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luxury serengeti
Ten nights across northern Tanzania's private reserves, from a coffee estate below Meru to the western Serengeti.
- Private Safari
- From $18,625 pp
- 2 guests
- 10 nights
trip highlights
- Mara Naboisho Conservancy permits walking safaris on foot with armed Maasai guides and spotlit night drives, both restricted inside the neighbouring reserve.
- The Serengeti camp moves with the wildebeest, standing on the southern calving plains from December to March and in the north near the Mara River from July to October.
- Guided walking safaris on the open Serengeti plains, led by armed guides with a national park ranger, read tracks and grasses at a pace no vehicle allows.
- Laba Fanjove sits on a coral island ringed by an 11-kilometre reef, with snorkelling straight off the beach and a restored 1894 lighthouse for dinner at sunset.
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Kenya, the Serengeti and the Songo Songo Coast
This route runs south across the Serengeti-Mara and out to the Indian Ocean over fourteen nights. It opens in Nairobi, a highland capital where savannah runs up against the suburbs, then moves to Mara Naboisho Conservancy on community-owned Maasai land, and on into the Serengeti, where a mobile camp keeps pace with the wildebeest. It closes on a private coral island in the Songo Songo Archipelago, off Tanzania’s southeast coast.
You travel by light aircraft and road, with a dhow or speedboat for the final leg to the island. The days hold game drives, walking safaris on foot with armed guides, night drives in the conservancy, and time on the reef. The four properties range from a hosted farmhouse to canvas camps and open A-frame villas, each chosen for its position rather than its fittings.
Daily Itinerary Breakdown
Nairobi: Karen and the City-Edge Savannah
Your first two nights are spent in Karen, on the leafy south-western edge of Nairobi, a highland city where lion, black rhino and resident herds of zebra and giraffe move across the savannah of Nairobi National Park. Karen puts a cluster of the city's best-known stops within reach, among them the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust nursery, with its orphaned elephants and rhinos, and the AFEW Giraffe Centre for close encounters with Rothschild's giraffes. Sheba's Secret Garden is a hosted Cape Dutch farmhouse taken as an exclusive-use home, with a gin distillery on the grounds where a tour and tasting form part of every stay.
- Accommodation at Sheba's Secret Garden
Mara Naboisho: Lions, Walking and Night Drives
You fly out of Nairobi to Mara Naboisho Conservancy, community-owned Maasai land within the greater Maasai Mara ecosystem, long known for the density of its lions. As a private conservancy, Naboisho permits walking safaris on foot with armed Maasai guides and spotlit night drives that can pick out genets, civets and hunting lions, none of which is allowed inside the reserve. A cap on vehicle numbers means a pride or a cheetah is watched by one or two cars rather than a queue. Encounter Mara Camp runs ten tents behind a belt of trees, looking out over a salt lick, with lions often audible after dark.
- Accommodation at Encounter Mara Camp
Serengeti: Following the Herds on Foot
Crossing south into Tanzania, you reach the Serengeti, where the camp is taken down and rebuilt to keep pace with the wildebeest. From December to March it sits on the southern short-grass plains near Nabi Hill, where volcanic soils draw the herds to calve in February; from July to October it moves north to Kogatende, within range of the Mara River crossings. Walking is the reason it exists in this form, with armed guides and a national park ranger leading outings from a couple of hours to a full day, and game drives running morning and afternoon. Serengeti Green Camp holds ten canvas tents, each opening onto the plains from the bed, with interiors drawn from Tanzanian craft.
- Accommodation at Serengeti Green Camp
Fanjove Island: Reef, Lighthouse and Tides
The final six nights move to a small coral island in the Songo Songo Archipelago, off Tanzania's southeast coast, reached by dhow or speedboat onto a beach with no other building in view. An 11-kilometre reef rings the island and spinner and bottlenose dolphins move through the lagoon; a sandbank runs out to sea, so swimming is possible at every tide. Days follow the tides rather than a schedule, on foot, by kayak or under sail, with snorkelling off the beach and diving on quiet outer sites. Laba Fanjove is built around a restored 1894 lighthouse, where guests gather to dine, with open A-frame villas under makuti thatch, cooled by the sea breeze.
- Accommodation at Laba Fanjove
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- Private Safari
- From $10,300 pp
- 2 guests
- 10 nights
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migration away from the crowds
Ten nights across Tanzania, from the eastern and southern Serengeti to chimpanzee trekking at Mahale on Lake Tanganyika.
- Private Safari
- From $15,635 pp
- 2 guests
- 10 nights
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