Explore
A primal calling to a simpler life
A calm space. A deep space. A space for reflection, stillness, and openness.
Deep in the wilderness, camouflaged among trees, Explore rests on the plains. Every moment at this stripped-back, private camp is guided by the landscape. Wind cools you. Heat nudges you toward shade. Curiosity calls you into each day. You wake gently to a human voice announcing sunrise, and at night, wildlife calls from the nearby dark. Free to roam, you feel earth crunch beneath every step, share meals over open flame, and end days trading stories, pondering embers and star-filled skies. It’s raw and simple, yet comfort is close: a cosy bed, a bucket shower, and excellence without modern excess.
Trek toward a simpler stretch of time
From the moment you land at Sasakwa Airstrip, every moment takes you further from the world you know, deeper into the wilderness, toward a true expression of nature. It’s a long drive past all our other Grumeti properties, along winding dirt and gravel roads, into the western reaches of the concession. Here, camouflaged in a stand of Balanites and desert dates – totemic icons of the Serengeti ecosystem – you’ll find Explore.
A solar-powered, vehicle-free camp, you step off the vehicle a way away from camp to begin your trek toward a simpler stretch of time – one guided only by the elements, intuition, and your body. Explore offers a deeply grounding experience, not close to the ecosystem, but part of it.
An endless expanse of wilderness
Set within Singita Grumeti, Explore offers the freedom to traverse 350,000 acres of the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem. Rich in heritage and biodiversity, this concession is home to the annual Great Migration and to an abundance of indigenous and migratory wildlife year-round.
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Conservation at Singita Serengeti
The Serengeti plains teem with wildlife, including vast herds of plains game, a plethora of predators and the spectacle of the annual wildebeest migration.
As the custodian of more than 350,000 acres of the world-renowned Serengeti ecosystem in Tanzania, Singita’s partnership with Grumeti Fund has had a profound impact on the Serengeti ecosystem. The non-profit Grumeti Fund carries out wildlife conservation and community development programs in and around the Singita Grumeti Reserve.
Faced with challenges including uncontrolled illegal hunting, rampant wildfires and spreading strands of invasive alien vegetation when they took over the management of the area in 2003, the Fund dedicated itself to transform severely depleted wildlife numbers into thriving populations once more. Restoring this once barren and highly degraded region to a flourishing wilderness, their successes include the remarkable recovery of many species – including buffalo, wildebeest and elephant populations, and in 2019, the Fund carried out the largest single relocation and reintroduction of 9 critically endangered Eastern Black Rhino.
The non-profit Fund is fiscally independent in its conservation and community project operations. Funds are derived in the form of donations from Singita guests, NGOs and philanthropists seeking to make a lasting contribution to the sustainability of conservation work in Africa.
