Singita Mara River Tented Camp

On a private concession adjacent to the Serengeti National Park’s northern section near the Mara River, Singita Mara River Tented Camp occupies a position in the northern Serengeti where the wildebeest migration’s most dramatic crossing behaviour occurs between the Serengeti and the Masai Mara ecosystems from July to October. The six tented suites are positioned close to the river bank in a camp whose design of canvas and natural materials maintains the atmosphere of direct proximity to the river’s wildlife activity — the crocodile pools, the hippopotamus pods, and the predator presence that makes the migration crossing point one of wildlife television’s most revisited locations — without the visual intrusion of permanent structures on a historically significant stretch of the Mara River ecosystem. The camp’s limited size gives the game programme a quality of exclusive river access unusual in the northern Serengeti’s competitive tourism landscape.

Migration river crossings at the Mara’s northern bridges, accessible from the camp’s private concession in a matter of minutes during peak season, provide the defining wildlife experience: watching tens of thousands of wildebeest compress onto the river’s banks, hesitate, and finally plunge into the crocodile-inhabited current in a movement that is simultaneously organised and chaotic, is among the most viscerally powerful wildlife spectacles available anywhere on the continent. Game drives across the northern Serengeti’s woodland and grassland habitats, walking safaris with Singita’s senior Trails Rangers, and night drives targeting the nocturnal predator community of the river corridor provide the programme framework beyond the migration season’s primary event.

Singita Mara River Tented Camp contributes to the Singita Serengeti Community and Conservation Fund’s work across the northern Serengeti corridor, including anti-poaching operations, community enterprise development, and the educational programmes with the Masai communities whose relationship with the northern Serengeti’s wildlife landscape predates the national park designation by many centuries.