Set in a grassy plain in northern Tanzania, in a private reserve adjacent to the Serengeti National Park, you will find a charming 1920s-style explorer’s camp. Steeped in character and a sense of nostalgic adventure, Singita Sabora Tented Camp surprises guests with an opulence that is delightfully out-of-place with the rugged terrain of the surrounding savannah.
The health and happiness of the communities close to Singita’s reserves is a key part of preserving the integrity of these wilderness areas and their wildlife. In order to ensure this positively enhancing balance between tourism, the community and conservation is maintained, Singita and its partners, like the Singita Grumeti Fund in Tanzania, employs dedicated staff on each property to co-ordinate active support for development initiatives.
One of the most rewarding aspects of Singita’s mission to protect some of Africa’s most pristine wilderness, is being able to share the impact of sustainable hospitality with our guests. Excursions to the small villages near our lodges enable our guests to gain insight into daily community life and illustrate the importance of community upliftment in Singita’s approach to modern conservation.
Today we celebrate Earth Day; a global environmental movement whose mission is to build a healthy, sustainable environment, address climate change, and protect the Earth for future generations. From fairly humble beginnings in the USA in 1970, the event has grown to include more than 1 billion participants in Earth Day activities each year, making it the largest civic observance in the world.
One of the main objectives for Singita’s community development programmes is creating a generation of well educated children. This usually takes the form of supporting early childhood development, but another very important aspect of this goal is further education. The Singita Grumeti scholarship fund invests heavily in the education of local youth in Tanzania, and has enabled hundreds of young people to complete their schooling, as well as tertiary-level diplomas and degrees.
What could be more romantic than watching the sun set over the Serengeti with your new spouse, a chilled glass of wine in hand and a herd of zebra grazing in the distance? Honeymoons at Singita Grumeti are filled with unforgettable moments like this one, and plenty of other extraordinary experiences.
Singita’s three tented safari experiences in Tanzania, Singita Sabora Tented Camp, Singita Explore and Singita Mara River Tented Camp, offer visitors to the Serengeti an intimate and authentic safari adventure that allows them to rough it in great style.
Singita Grumeti, situated adjacent to the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, is an integral part of the Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem. Singita manages the concession on behalf of the non-profit Grumeti Community and Wildlife Conservation Fund, and is responsible for the long-term sustainability of the reserve. Elephants, the gentle giants of the grasslands, form an essential part of this ecosystem. Here field guide Ross Couper tells us more:
The Serengeti’s storied plains are a thing of wondrous beauty; endless grasslands, winding rivers, rocky volcanic outcrops and thorny acacia forests. Renowned for its epic mammal migration which draws thousands of safari lovers every year, this pristine wilderness is also one of the best places in the world to see lions in their natural habitat, along with a host of other unique wildlife.
One of the most successful ongoing community development projects at Singita Grumeti is the Grumeti Horticultural and Marketing Co-op Society (GHOMACOS), supplying the lodge kitchens with a constant flow of high-quality, freshly harvested, locally grown vegetables, herbs and fruits.
