Singita Sasakwa Lodge

On a hillside above the Grumeti River, within a private concession bordering the Serengeti National Park in northern Tanzania, Singita Sasakwa Lodge occupies a position in the landscape that has been described as one of the finest views in Africa: a Edwardian-era farmhouse set high above the plains, with a terrace that looks across the open savannah and the forested river corridor towards the Serengeti’s horizon. The lodge’s 11 suites, arranged in stone-and-thatch cottages around the central farmhouse, combine the aesthetic of an East African settler home with the material quality and service precision that have made Singita the reference standard for high-end safari operations in sub-Saharan Africa. The infinity pool at the escarpment edge occupies the best sightline in the property.

The 350,000-acre Grumeti Singita concession, which sits along the route of the annual wildebeest migration, provides exclusive game-drive access to territory shared with no other safari operator. The concession’s low vehicle density and the quality of the ranger and tracker training programme give guests a wildlife experience of considerable depth, with lion, leopard, cheetah, elephant, and the full range of Serengeti plains species accessible throughout the year. The migration passage through the concession in June and July, when the wildebeest cross the Grumeti River in their millions, represents one of the most visceral wildlife spectacles available anywhere on the continent.

Singita’s conservation model at Grumeti includes active anti-poaching operations, community enterprise development, and habitat restoration across the concession, with the Grumeti Fund — a not-for-profit partner organisation — coordinating land and wildlife management at a landscape scale that gives the entire ecosystem a better chance of long-term viability than protected status alone can guarantee.