Luxurious African Digs That Are Environmentally-Friendly

If you're a guest at Tanzania's luxurious Singita Sabora Tented Camp, you might not realize that the wildlife-filled swath of the Serengeti you're gazing at represents ecotourism at its best.

Grumeti Reserves, the location of the camp, was a barren, 340,000-acre landscape where wildlife had been poached into near oblivion when U.S. philanthropist Paul Tudor Jones acquired access rights to the land in 2002. He entrusted its custodianship to Luke Bailes, CEO of Singita, a lodge company that transformed Grumeti into one of Africa’s finest game-viewing areas. Singita's core purpose, he says, "is to protect large tracts of land for future generations."

From “This Lodge is Proof that Safaris Can Be Good for the Environment” by Jenn Flowers for Afar, 2016; Photo courtesy of Singita

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