Camps and Lodges
Reviews and guides to Africa’s best safari camps and lodges, from classic bush camps to luxury lodges.
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Soroi Amboseli Opens Inside Amboseli National Park
Soroi Amboseli, the new camp from Kenya’s Soroi Collection, is one of the few places to stay inside Amboseli National Park: 16…
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Kanana Nyana Opens in the Okavango Delta
Kanana Nyana opened on 15 October 2026 on Ker & Downey Botswana’s private Kanana concession, bordering Moremi: four suites named after Delta…
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Is This the Most Unusual Safari Lodge in Africa?
Kruger Shalati is a 1950s train permanently stationed on the Selati Bridge over the Sabie River at Skukuza, on the spot where…
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Heritage as the Experience, Impact as the Purpose: The Cottars and the Future of Safari
In 2020 Cottar’s Safaris had no guests and no revenue, and kept paying its Maasai landowners anyway. A century after the family…
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Tracks of the Lion: Evolve Back Kalahari, on the Edge of the Central Kalahari
Evolve Back Kalahari sits on a private reserve on the northern boundary of Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve. What the lodge is…
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Lolelunga: Zambia’s Newest Reserve Is Bringing Lion and Cheetah Home
On a 30,000-hectare private reserve on the Lunga River north of Kafue, Lolelunga is rewilding lion and cheetah, and rebuilding a landscape…
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Sandringham: A New Reserve Joins the Greater Kruger
Sandringham, the Sabi Sabi Collection’s newest reserve, opened on 1 August 2026 after five years turning a former hunting property into protected…
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Thitaka River Lodge: On the Kwando, Where Namibia’s Elephants Came Back
In 1978, a survey of what is now Bwabwata National Park counted 35 elephants. Today the same stretch of Namibia sits inside…
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Kulu Ora: A Lodge in the Empty Half of Murchison Falls
A new lodge opens in a corner of Uganda’s largest national park that had no tourism in it at all — canvas…
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Tum Tum Treehouse Lodge: Sleeping in the Trees Above Hwange’s Wildlife
Imvelo Safari Lodges’ newest camp in Hwange puts guests in treehouses five to seven metres up, with a Look Up blind at…