Sasakwa stands on a hilltop in the Singita Grumeti Reserve, a roughly 350,000-acre private concession on the western side of the Serengeti ecosystem, about ten minutes from Sasakwa airstrip. The cottages are built in an Edwardian manor style with parquet floors, fireplaces, dressing rooms and private plunge pools, and open onto verandas facing the plains below. Two daily game drives and guided bush walks are included; balloon flights, horse riding, spa treatments, tennis, stargazing and community visits are arranged separately. Because the reserve is private, off-road driving is permitted. The reserve's anti-poaching operation can be visited. The migration passes through the concession, typically between May and July.
What sets it apart
The hilltop manor-house architecture and the horse-riding stable are unlike anything else in the Serengeti ecosystem.
Who it suits
Private-reserve exclusivity; horse riding; families; off-road game viewing.
The essentials
| Country | Tanzania |
| Where | Singita Grumeti Reserve, western Serengeti ecosystem, on Sasakwa Hill |
| Property type | lodge (Edwardian-style cottages) |
| Rooms | 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. |
What it costs
No rate is published on the property's own site. Third-party reseller range only, not an official published rate: "Peak: USD $3,525; Standard: USD $2,550 per person per night" per https://www.serengeti.com/singita-sasakwa-lodge.php, as listed September 2026. Singita's own site does not display rates on the lodge page.
A reseller's range tells you the bracket, not the price you would pay. We show it because it is the only public figure that exists, and we label it rather than present it as the property's own.
About the photographs
The pictures on this page are stock photographs of African bush and desert country, chosen to suggest the kind of landscape you find around the Serengeti, Tanzania. They are not photographs of this property, and we cannot verify where any of them was taken — a stock library records the photographer, not the place. We use them rather than borrow the property's own marketing images, which would imply we had been there. For pictures of the rooms, see the property's own site.