Where will you stay on your safari?

East Africa

Sayari tent East Africa offers a surprising range of accommodations — from luxury lodges, to intimate bush homes; from tented camps of astonishing ingenuity, to mobile camps that provide access to even the remotest areas. All these options are lovely, secure, and more full of creature comforts than first-time visitors can usually imagine. Where you stay will be determined, first and foremost, by what you want to see and which country or countries you want to visit.

Kenya has the most developed infrastructure of the East African nations, and the longest tradition of tourism; with its mix of savanna and woodlands, it probably conforms most closely to the image of the classic game-viewing safari. Tanzania, whose prosperity and infrastructure have both made enormous gains in recent years, boasts such fabled destinations as the Serengeti Plain and the Ngorongoro Crater, as well as less-visited but fascinating places like the Sanjan Gorge and Ol Donyo Lengai — East Africa’s only live volcano. Uganda — now a safe, stable, and extremely welcoming country — is East Africa’s greenest and most pristine; its unique assets include the rare mountain gorillas of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, and the magnificent upper reaches of the Nile.

A Lodge in Tanzania Lodges

Lodges in East Africa range from the simple to the luxurious, from the common place to the unique. I look for those which are in harmony with their environment, and which offer the opportunity to be close to the natural world.

The lodges of East Africa are as varied as the different habitats they occupy, and as individual as their owners. Each has the local experts — their daily life interacting with the African bush makes them so. As a guest at private game sanctuaries, farms, beach houses, or secluded tented camps, each lodging offers you a unique adventure enriched with African hospitality. You share the wonders, the wildlife, the vastness that is Africa, with those who have chosen the wilderness of this land for their homes.

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Sayari tent Tented Camps

Many tented camps operate with principles similar to lodges, and give you the opportunity to sleep under canvas. The camp may be permanent or seasonal, but will always be well equiped with all the comforts and conveniences you might expect. In the more exclusive camps you will enjoy an suprpassed level of luxury, in a small camp, perhaps used only by your group, in a location of rare splendour and beauty.

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The choice of a place to stay depends on your budget, your interests, and the season of the year.

My philosophy encompasses longer stays at fewer places.

Relying on personal experiences, I only recommend places which I have visited.