Luxury African Safaris - Tanzania - Africa's Most Popular Safari Destination

There's nothing that quite depicts the feeling you acquire when waking up to the sound of an elephant herd marching through the broad unfastened grasslands of Tanzania. Home to the violet gem, Tanzanite, this state is like a deep cleft in the Earth's crust of Africa which have spawned lush, calm Highlands enmeshed with velvety lakes and majestic volcanoes.

To be honest, I'm not exactly a safari-type of traveller who can put up collapsible shelter just about anywhere. To me, comfortableness come ups first and I'd take a extravagance hotel over a shrub encampment any day, but there was just something about the Ngorongoro Volcanic Crater Sir Oliver Lodge that really intrigued me. It's true up what they say, it really is without a shadow of a uncertainty the most architecturally impressive campaign lodge in Africa.

The Volcanic Crater Sir Oliver Lodge have a rich, antediluvian patriarch aura about it and each thatch suite is evocative of an epoch that once was, with tall handcrafted antiques, expansive pendants and adorned African treasures.

Standing in my Lodge sleeping room I can see the Volcanic Crater below in all its luster through floor-to-ceiling glass windows. Fortunately for me, I make not have got a fearfulness of heights, which would've been a existent problem, since the lodge is situated on the border of the Ngorongoro Crater. After a appreciated cup of Rooibos tea I name upon my personal pantryman to pull my bath as I pack my things and start preparing for the ultimate extravagance campaign in Tanzania.

Afternoons are spent on scenic game thrusts on closed 4X4s with a very enlightened circuit guide, might I add. Throughout our thrust across the vale to the lake below, and on the flooring of the world's biggest crater, I kept asking our usher all kinds of inquiries only to happen myself totally engrossed in his absorbing responses.

I would not have got minded disbursement the full hebdomad of my campaign at the Ngorongoro Volcanic Crater Lodge. With mulct wine, scrumptious epicure culinary art and a personal pantryman beckoning at my every call, I was living the life of a king. But we had to maintain on path with our itinerary.

A full twenty-four hours was spent at the Serengeti National Park, exploring this big parkland with morning time and afternoon campaign drives. The Serengeti National Park is joined to the Masai Mara Park Reserve, which I later learned was named after the Masai tribal dwellers of the country and the Mara River which splits it.

After much exploring and burden my camera's memory stick full of incredible sights, we spent the nighttime at one of the epicurean campaign Lodges stopping point by. And at that moment, in the center of the African Savannah with chetahs lurking in the distance, an overpowering haste of contentment filled my body. Being in the presence of Africa's dramatic wilderness have that consequence on you.

The perfect ending


There is no better manner to stop off a extravagance African campaign than a weekend at the beautiful, calm Zanzibar Island. The minute we arrived I kicked off my place and dived consecutive into the crystal clear H2O which gently brushes the golden, farinaceous beaches. A sparkling coral reef lines Zanzibar's ocean, mimicking a kaleidoscope of colors at the underside of the sea bed.

I spent quite some clip lazing in my deck chair, sipping martinis and being waited on beside the vacation spot pool. Fresh, ocean culinary art was served at repast modern times followed by a trip to the celebrated Rock Town, the old cultural metropolis of Zanzibar. Browse the winding streets of bustling bazars and regal Arab houses I experienced Zanzibar's enriched cultural and historical beauty.

I must admit, leaving the island almost had me in crying thinking that I'd now have got to go back to my norm life in the city. These last few years on my African campaign have got shown me a new degree of luxury, a extravagance tantrum for a king.