‘Glamping at its finest’: a 2-day luxury safari in the African wilds with sustainable features to boot
- Honeyguide Tarangire Camp in Tanzania is a luxury tent-lodging concept that puts safari goers closer to the wildlife they come to view
- The camp’s sustainable features include solar energy to power the outlets and heat the water, and guidelines on how to limit water use
You wake up to a cacophony of birdsong as the sky lightens. Propping yourself on pillows, you scan the wild African landscape out the front screen of the room. An antelope noiselessly strides past while a bird swoops into view, a flash of shimmering blue, orange and green. Hot tea awaits you on the veranda.
As you sip, you imagine what you’ll see on safari today. Perhaps a mother lion and her cubs or a troop of playful baboons.
Who would expect such luxury in the Tanzanian wilderness? But such is a typical morning at Honeyguide Tarangire Camp, a tent-lodging concept that puts safari goers closer to the wildlife they come to view.
The camp’s 10 tents aren’t the poles-and-nylon-fabric variety but rather cosy suites with a range of creature comforts – and with the feel of being in the wild because, well, they are.
Our group of six travellers signed up for a night at Honeyguide as part of a two-day safari in summer 2022. Before it, we had completed the long trek to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, and now we needed some winding down time.