155 camps & lodges

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Camps and lodges whose existence, location, room count and published rates we confirmed against the property's own site plus at least one independent source. We take no commission and list no property we could not verify twice. Where nobody publishes a rate, we say so rather than guess.

Photographs are illustrative stock images of African bush country, not pictures of the properties.

Elewana Tarangire Treetops

Private concession on the north-eastern boundary of Tarangire National Park, Tanzania

20 elevated treehouses (per Elewana's own page). Neither Go2Africa nor Tanzania Odyssey states a count, so the figure rests on the operator alone.

Serra Cafema Camp

Banks of the Kunene River at the Angolan border, Namibia

8 chalets, including one family unit

Shinde Camp

Shinde concession, Botswana

8 tents — 7 standard en-suite tents plus 1 family tent with two bedrooms sleeping a maximum of five

Shipwreck Lodge

Skeleton Coast National Park, Namibia

10 cabins — 8 twin/double and 2 family, per the co-owning operator Natural Selection. Go2Africa confirms standard and family cabins but gives no total; the lodge's own site gives no count.

Singita Faru Faru Lodge

Singita Grumeti Reserve, Tanzania

9 suites — 8 one-bedroom suites and 1 two-bedroom family suite (per Serengeti.com). Singita's own page does not state a count.

Singita Sabora Tented Camp

Singita Grumeti Reserve, Tanzania

9 tented suites (Serengeti.com states nine self-contained suites; Singita's own page does not give a total)

Singita Sasakwa Lodge

Singita Grumeti Reserve, Tanzania

10 cottages, of which nine are one-bedroom cottages plus the separate Hillside Suite; four are family cottages (per Serengeti.com). Singita's own page confirms one-bedroom cottages and a Hillside Suite but gives no total.

Sirikoi

Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Kenya

6 units — four en-suite luxury tents with private decks, a two-bedroom cottage, and the exclusive-use Sirikoi House (operator's own site; the conservancy's listing gives the same breakdown, and Go2Africa puts total capacity at 16 guests)

Siringit Serengeti Camp

Central Serengeti, Tanzania

unverified. The operator's own site states ten canvas tents; Serengeti.com states nine, being eight standard plus one family tent. The sources differ by one unit.

Sossus Dune Lodge

Inside Namib-Naukluft National Park, near Sesriem, Namibia

25 chalets — 23 dune chalets and 2 honeymoon suites, built in two wings

Sossusvlei Lodge

At the Sesriem entrance gate to Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia

44 superior units per the independent source, with family units, accessible units and junior suites also offered; the lodge's own site describes the room types but gives no total. Treat the 44 figure as single-sourced.

TAASA Lodge

Private concession on a ridge east of the northern Serengeti, Tanzania

12 tents (both sources agree on twelve)

Serian 'The Original'

Mara North Conservancy, Kenya

5 — "5 vast, spacious tents, of which one is a family unit" (operator's own site)

Tau Pan Camp

Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana

9 units — 8 suites plus 1 family suite

The Highlands

Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania

8 domed suites. Go2Africa breaks this down as four standard suites, two with mezzanine levels, one honeymoon suite and one family suite; Asilia describes standard, family and honeymoon suites within the same total of eight.

Elewana The Manor at Ngorongoro

Karatu, Tanzania

18 suites in 9 cottages, plus a separate family cottage — Elewana calls the latter a family cottage and Go2Africa names it the Stable Cottage with three en-suite bedrooms. Both sources agree on nine cottages and eighteen suites.

Elewana Tortilis Camp Amboseli

Private conservancy on the south-western boundary of Amboseli National Park, Kenya

unverified — neither Elewana's own page nor Go2Africa publishes a total; both describe safari tents, a family tent and a two-bedroom Private House with its own pool, with the family tent and house set apart from the main camp on a hill

Ubuntu Migration Camp

Moves between the Lamai Wedge in the northern Serengeti and the Kusini area in the southern Serengeti, Tanzania

10 tents, including one four-sleeper family tent (both sources agree on ten)

Vumbura Plains Camp

Vumbura concession, Botswana

14 suites in total — Vumbura Plains North (7) and Vumbura Plains South (7)

From NAD 20,950

Wolwedans Boulders Camp

Far south of the NamibRand Nature Reserve, Namibia

`unverified` — the operator says 5 tented suites for a maximum of 10 guests; namibweb says 8 beds. The two disagree on capacity.

From NAD 14,900

Wolwedans Desert Lodge

NamibRand Nature Reserve, Namibia

`unverified` — the operator says 10 tented rooms including 3 family rooms; Safari.co.uk, still using the former name Dunes Lodge, says nine chalets; the Namibian portal namibweb says eight chalets and 18 beds. Three sources, three figures.

From NAD 14,900

Wolwedans Dune Camp

NamibRand Nature Reserve, Namibia

`unverified` — the operator says 8 rooms (6 tented rooms plus a two-room family suite) for a maximum of 16 guests, plus 2 guide tents; namibweb says 12 beds and a maximum of 12 guests. The sources disagree on capacity.

Xugana Island Lodge

Xugana Lagoon, Botswana

11 units — 10 luxury tents (one of them wheelchair-accessible, two able to interlink) and 1 family tent, maximum 22 guests, plus a pilot/guide chalet

Zarafa Camp

Selinda Reserve, Botswana

4 tented suites