Description
Serengeti Safari Camp is a traditional mobile tented camp which moves through the season from the grassy plain to rolling wooded hills and dramatic granite kopjes, all within the national park. The camp itself is small and built in classic safari style, with only six comfortable walk-in tents, each with its own en suite bathroom.
The camp changes location every 2 weeks but not during your stay. Camp movements are pre-planned in an effort to be within reach of the wildebeest migration, but this cannot always be guaranteed given the unpredictability of nature according to weather conditions.
Each couple or group of guests is guaranteed a private 4x4 vehicle with an experienced Tanzanian driver-guide throughout their stay, allowing complete flexibility to tailor the safari to their own particular interests. Walking safaris, bush picnics and cook out breakfasts are a few of the many Serengeti Safari Camp experiences, and are offered wherever possible, depending on the camp location.
Accommodation
The six tents are light in their footprint, but with all that anyone might need in their own bush home: spacious tents with deeply comfortable beds, a roomy dressing area, and then an ensuite bathroom with a low water usage bio-degradable flush toilet, and traditional safari style bucket showers with hot and cold water on demand.
Childcare
Serengeti Safari Camp is not suited to very young children and therefore only those aged 8 and above are accepted in camp. Food and meal times can be adjusted to suit the requirements of the children and babysitting can be arranged for those that need it. Please note, there is a restriction of 12 years and over on any walking or fly camping activities.
Facilities
Due to its 'nomadic' nature, the camp is very simple there is a brand new library and lounge tent, as well as a new dining tent where delicious camp cuisine is served.
Activities
Game drives are in private 4WD vehicles with a personal guide to take you on daily game drives and great birding. There is an opportunity to see the great wildebeest and zebra migration, large herds of plains game and the highest concentrate of predators in Africa.
When to travel
Tanzania is a large country, with a varied climate. Generally, the long rains run from March to May - the temperature is warm and the humidity is high. June to October is the long dry season, and the short rains are in November and December, much lighter than the long rains. January and February are again dry (the short dry season) so this is another good time to visit.
December to March, is the Wildebeest calving season. In April and May, the rut begins and the plains dry out so the herd begin the journey north. June and July, the migration gathers momentum and the herds enter the Serengeti Western Corridor. It's here that the wildebeest and their newborn calves meet their first serious barrier in the form of the Grumeti River and its vast crocodiles. Between August and November, the migration reaches its northern range: the grasslands on either bank of the crocodile-infested Mara River which the herds must cross not once, but twice, as they complete their migration.
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Location and directions
Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
Serengeti Safari Camp moves throughout the Serengeti National Park, changing location to follow the movements of the migration (it will not move during your stay). Camp movements are pre-planned in an effort to be within reach of the herds, but this cannot always be guaranteed given the unpredictability of nature and weather conditions.
How to get there
The nearest airstrips vary according to the seasons. Depending on the position of the camp, which changes according to time of year, there are daily flights from Arusha (and Dar es Salaam) to the various airstrips; drive in 4WD vehicles (when the camp is in the southern Serengeti)
