SERENGETI UNDER CANVAS
KLEIN'S CAMP CONCESSION, NORTHERN TANZANIA

• Migratory wilderness camping
• En-suite luxury tents
• Professional guides
• Commitment to Conservation
• Camping in either the Serengeti National Park or Klein's Private Concession
• A game-rich habitat
• Limitless Serengeti Plains

General information

Having secured some of the Serengeti's best semi-permanent campsites, we are able to bring our guests as close as possible to the migration or resident game. These campsites are all pre-booked allowing us tremendous flexibility in moving the camps according to expected migration movements.

The massive herds move relatively slowly enabling us to plan ahead and set up our luxurious camps in the best possible locations. The aim is to position the camps within comfortable driving distance of the migration during exciting daily safaris (early in the morning and again during the afternoon and early evening), or often for the full day. However, with nature being as unpredictable as it is, close proximity to the mass herds cannot always be guaranteed. When the migration crosses over into Kenya, we keep our camps in the remote and beautiful corners of the Serengeti, which are renowned for their excellent resident game.

Accommodation

SERENGETI UNDER CANVAS ACCOMMODATION

Serengeti Under Canvas camps boast the same style, comfort and sheer elegance that guests have come to expect as the CC Africa norm. This is Serengeti in style - a chance to partake in a classic Tanzanian safari as it would have been experienced in the 1920's. Roaming wilderness camps will follow in the footsteps of the animals, featuring bedouin style tents with full ensuite facilities, outdoor bucket showers and separate w.c.'s.

• Four permanent and three semi-permanent luxury lodges
• Available on a nightly basis
• Private butler service
• Delicious Pan African meals and traditional bush dinners
• Spacious guest area tent with a choice of board and card games
• Serengeti camps - 4 luxury roaming ensuite tents complete with hot bucket showers
• Klein's wilderness camp - 6 opulent ensuite tents with personalised butler service

Activities

SAFARI ACTIVITIES - SERENGETI UNDER CANVAS, SERENGETI

Thrilling safari activities

Experience exciting daily game-drives, night drives and interpretive bush walks, unique to Tanzania, visits to local Maasai manyattas (homesteads), and exciting bush banquets.

Exhilarating day and night game-drives

Expert CC Africa rangers and guides will lead you on game-drives in open 4x4 safari vehicles through the Serengeti or Klein's private wildlife concession. Action-packed night game-drives are unique to Tanzania, offering guests extraordinary game viewing.

Bush banquets

Enjoy exciting bush breakfasts, sundowners and romantic bush dinners with magnificent views over the northern Serengeti.

Game viewing

WILDLIFE SAFARIS AT SERENGETI UNDER CANVAS

Exceptional year-round African wildlife

Serengeti Under Canvas operates year round, even during April and May. An ideal time to experience Tanzania's wilderness, when the vast green plains are lush and plentiful, with dramatic afternoon thundershowers. Witness the unforgettable sights as the lightning flashes and the rainbows soar high above the Serengeti plains. Only using private campsites, these migratory camps are intimate and exclusive.

• Excellent year-round lion, leopard and cheetah viewing
• Great Migration of thousands of zebra and wildebeest (typically in July)
• Huge buffalo and elephant herds
• Soaring eagles, hawks and vultures glide past the hilltop camp
• Rich birdwatching in seasonal marshland
• Five distinct habitats
• Safaris to Lobo Hills and Seronera in central Serengeti.

Serengeti Under Canvas Habitats

The camp traverses the rocky slopes of the Kuka Hills, including open woodland savanna, dominated by acacia and desert date trees. Grassland savanna comprises tall grass with scattered trees, and an evergreen riparian forest fringes the Grumeti River. Commiphora, ficus, rhus and cordia are among the trees found on the rocky hillsides. Bush-clump thickets of grewia, gardenia and cordia shrubs are hiding places for smaller mammals and feeding sites for birds.

Mammals - Serengeti Under Canvas

Individually recognisable leopard and cheetah are regularly located in their known territories. Tens of thousands of zebra and wildebeest pass through the Klein's valley on their annual migration to and from Kenya's Masai Mara. Huge herds of buffalo and breeding herds of elephant offer exceptional game viewing. Bohor reedbuck and Defassa waterbuck favour marshland fringes. Chandler's reedbuck and rock hyrax inhabit the rocky slopes above the camp. Silver galago (of the black melanistic form) favour taller riverine trees. Resident herbivores are joined each season by huge numbers of migratory wildebeest and zebra. Bat-eared fox and serval are among regularly seen smaller carnivores.

Birds - Serengeti Under Canvas

There are 345 species recorded for Serengeti Under Canvas. Pygmy falcon, pearl-spotted owlet, slate-coloured boubou and spot-flanked barbet are common in woodland and bush-clumps. Grey crowned crane, wattled lapwing and malachite kingfisher are among species attracted to marshlands. African green pigeon, Schalow's turaco, Narina trogon and white-headed barbet are among fruit-eaters in riparian forest. Large flocks of gregarious yellow-throated sandgrouse visit waterholes to quench their thirst. Dazzling Fischer's lovebirds feed alongside grey-capped social weavers and blue-capped cordonbleu in bush clump thickets. Tawny eagle, bateleur and white-headed vultures are among breeding raptors. Vast numbers of migratory storks, kestrels, harriers and other birds from September to March.

Other Wildlife

Large leopard tortoises inhabit rocky areas where African rock python also find refuge. Aquatic terrapins live in marshlands and streams. Brightly-coloured, flat-headed mwanza agama bask on rocks around the camp. A rich variety of butterflies, moths, dragonflies and other insects are to be seen. Massive Nile crocodiles inhabit the waters of the Grumeti River. Colonies of pugnacious cocktail ants live in whistling thorn trees.

Conservation

SERENGETI UNDER CANVAS, EAST AFRICA

Serengeti Under Canvas is committed to the core principles

Care of the Land, Care of the Wildlife, Care of the people.

The focus is

Community equity, income generation, education and health care are a primary concern. In consultation with community organisations such as the Africa Foundation - a not-for-profit rural development organisation - CC Africa has contributed significantly towards improving the prosperity and living conditions of rural communities.

Ecotourism in Africa

Guests play a critical role in helping realise the dream and vision: to create a model in wise land management, integrating international travellers and rural people to their mutual benefit and demonstrating that wildlife can be preserved on a sustainable basis by all.

Positive Health Programme

Our partner CC Africa strongly believes in its people and was recently listed as one of three finalists in the Investor in People category of the 2005 Tourism for Tomorrow Awards. The October 2005 edition of Africa Geographic featured an article on AIDS and conversation, and highlighted the activities and programmes that various African companies are implementing in order to increase AIDS awareness and, in doing so, empower the communities taking care of some of the world's richest wilderness regions.

"Probably the most attractive program ... is that of CC Africa... CC Africa launched a Positive Health program in 2003 and in April and May last year ran two seven-day courses.... Their approach focuses on home-based care, gardens, counseling techniques and gender issues.... The health of the habitat is critical to the health of the individuals in it.... The conservation industry is uniquely positioned to take the treatment of HIV/AIDS in radically new directions.... Benefits [of the program] include acquiring 'hard skills' such as maintaining clean water, producing food, and home-based methods of dealing with illnesses that are not life threatening.... It takes only the will of ecologically minded people to make sure that the wild places are not lost."
Africa Geographic, October 2005

Getting there

Fly-in safaris to Serengeti airstrip nearest to camp (Seronera, Grumeti, Klein's, Lobo). Klein's Camp is easily accessible by a daily morning scheduled flight from Arusha, followed by a 45-minute game-drive to camp. We can pre-book and package all of your regional/internal flights and transfers, and provide a meet and greet service at all airports.

There are daily international flights from Europe and South Africa to Nairobi and Kilimanjaro International Airports.

Daily scheduled flights from Nairobi's Wilson Airport via Kilimanjaro to Klein's airstrip, followed by a short game-drive to camp. If you arrive at Kilimanjaro International Airport, you will overnight in Arusha, departing early the next morning on a scheduled flight to Klein's airstrip, followed by a short game-drive to camp.

Let Amanzi Travel arrange your flights for you

What is included

• Accommodation
• Three meals daily
• Soft drinks, house wines, local brand spirits, and beers
• Teas and coffees
• Refreshments on game drives
• Laundry
• Scheduled safari activities
• Emergency medical evacuation insurance
• Transfers from Manyara airstrip to Lake Manyara Tree Lodge; Grumeti airstrip to Grumeti River Camp; Klein's airstrip to Klein's Camp; and from designated closest airstrip to Under Canvas Tanzania

What is not included:

• Telephone calls
• Safari Shop purchases
• Champagne, cognacs, fine wines, premium brand spirits, and cigars
• Gratuities
• Transfers not stipulated above
• National park fees and Klein's Camp conservancy fees [these are charged for a 24-hour period (i.e., should guests arrive on the morning flight and depart the following day on the afternoon flight, park fees for two days will be charged)
• Crater conservancy fees

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