What makes a safari extra special? A comb through Bushtops' client reviews proves that there’s no quick or simple answer. However, alongside eagle-eyed spotters and highly-specified game vehicles, great service and astonishing food, the quality of their tents is a regular highlight.
Actually, calling these living spaces ‘tents’ always sounds a bit strange : they say they’re more like highly characterful 5-star hotel rooms under canvas. If anyone can invent a suitable word or very short phrase to describe them, they’d be so grateful!
Their master of design, Andrin Schweizer, spent many days on site assessing the location and light, researching options and seeking inspiration. The redesigned suites now feature elegant new furniture and matching soft furnishings, ceiling fans and soft-lighting lanterns, plus well-stocked mini bars. Meanwhile, hand-cut slate from a local quarry contributes dramatically to revamped, upgraded bathrooms.
Their guest accommodation has always blended into the surrounding Bush, but now does so with even greater beauty, authenticity and grandeur.
Serengeti Bushtops has also doubled the size of its buggy fleet, from two to four, allowing more people to spend more time zipping about between their suites and public areas.
For some, these forays are like mini safaris, viewing the flora and fauna beyond the camp, from within.
Right now, the migration has arrived in the Northern Serengeti and is heading into the Mara in vast numbers. Unusually most crossings are happening at the Sand River, with fewer at the more regularly favoured Mara River. As always, the herds go their own way and bely expectations!
The river crossings are obvious highlights, though irregular (we’re used to daily events, but right now they’re heading into the water just once or twice a week). Our rangers and regular guests say they have never seen quite so many animals in the migration before, which is wonderful news. During the coming weeks and months we should be able to enjoy herds on the way up, then on the way back to the Southern Serengeti, so this is peak time for Serengeti Bushtops. The great thing, though, is there is never a dull moment here, whatever time of year!
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