Serengeti Safari Camp Central is a mobile camp that travels across the plains of Serengeti so that guests can follow the migration herds and enjoy the best possible game viewing year-round. One of the first of Greater Serengeti’s mobile safari camps, Serengeti Safari Camp Central packs up and moves to a new location 4-5 every 2-3 months. Guests are unable to stay at the camp while it is moving, however, you can enjoy revisiting this friendly home-away-from-home with guides who hold a collective 200 years of experience between them, while being able to experience a fresh stay in a completely new landscape. The camp is focused on being both environmentally friendly and comfortable, with eco flush loos and safari bucket showers as well as plush double beds within your Meru-style tents. Enjoy a relaxing stay, surrounded by natural beauty and rich wildlife viewing.
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Serengeti Safari Camp Central moves 4-5 times throughout the year in order to provide guests with the optimum wildlife viewing and to keep track of the Great Migration. While the camp’s movements are designed to always be close to the wildebeest, the unpredictability of nature sometimes means that this is not entirely possible. Guests can reach the camp by flying to the nearest airstrip to its current location. Both private charter and scheduled flights are available, and guests will be collected in safari vehicles, allowing you to enjoy a brief game drive to the camp itself.
- New location every couple of months
- Follows best game viewing opportunities
- Six spacious Meru tents
- Eco-friendly mobile camp
- Indoor dining, outdoor dining and bar
- Library tent
- Campfire seating area
- Complimentary wi-fi
- Battery charging facilities
The 5 Meru-style En-suite Tents have an authentic classic safari style, with wooden storage chests for personal items, and a traditional and earthy aesthetic. The large bedrooms feature comfy double beds with soft pillows and breathable linen. The elegant wooden furnishings provide a homely environment, making your room more than just a place to rest your head. Surround netted windows offer guests panoramic views of the sweeping plains, riverine forests and swaying grasslands that are visible at the various camp locations.
Each camp is secluded, offering you privacy and an exclusive safari experience. The spacious en-suite bathrooms consist of an eco flush toilet (which uses 90% less water than a conventional loo), bucket shower and sink. Guests are provided with both hot and cold water and a dressing area. Sit out on your private verandah and enjoy the beautiful views of undisturbed wilderness.
The Family Tent is made up of two safari tents, both with their own en-suite bathrooms, making this accommodation ideal for families. The two bedrooms feature comfy double beds with soft pillows and breathable linen, as well as elegant wooden furnishings and storage chests. Surround netted windows offer guests panoramic views of the sweeping plains, riverine forests and swaying grasslands that are visible at the various camp locations. Both of the spacious en-suite bathrooms consist of an eco flush toilet (which uses 90% less water than a conventional loo), bucket shower and sink. The bedrooms connect via a comfortable lounge area and guests are also able to sit outside on their private verandah and enjoy the sweeping landscape views.
Guests can enjoy 3 mouth-watering meals each day, starting with a breakfast buffet that offers a wide variety of options including cereal, pancakes, fruit and hot food. Alternatively, if you are planning to start your day with an exciting game drive, you can choose to take a breakfast picnic into the bush and enjoy a meal on the go. Lunch may also be taken into the bush as a picnic option, or eaten at the camp. Serengeti Safari Camp offer both group and private dining, giving guests the chance to converse with other groups if they so wish.
In the evenings, guests can all enjoy a drink together around the campfire, before a three-course dinner is served. The camp offers a range of international dishes and indulgent desserts, all of which use fresh ingredients and are full of flavour. Dietary requirements can be catered for if the chefs are given prior warning.
Venture out on an exciting game drive with one of Nomad’s professional guides, who collectively hold over 200 years of experience. Learn about the amazing animals that live in Serengeti’s wilderness and view lions, leopards, cheetah, elephants, buffalo, wildebeest and zebra in their natural habitat from the comfort of a specially designed safari vehicle. Serengeti Safari Camp usually follow the Great Migration as approximately 2 million wildebeest, zebra and impala travel across Serengeti.
Predators such as big cats and crocodiles are lured in by the abundance of prey, especially the calves, and offer guests a variety of dramatic game viewing opportunities. Game drives usually begin early in the morning, returning at lunchtime. Afternoon drives are also available, and guests can choose to stay out for the entire day if they wish. Packed lunches and refreshments are available to take with you.
Balloon safaris offer guests a chance to have a bird’s eye view of the Serengeti ecosystem. Drift above woodlands, riverine forests, grasslands and open plains, taking in the vast landscape and incredible wildlife from above. Float silently over prowling predators and grazing impala without the noises of an engine to disrupt the game, and follow huge herds of wildebeest across the bush, viewing them from an entirely new perspective.
Serengeti Safari Camp is a Nomad Tanzania camp. Nomad utilises planes, cars, camps and their teams in order to offer aid to the more remote and isolated regions of Tanzania and provide educational and medical support. Nomad donates safari to auctions in order to raise money for these projects.
Nomad’s educational support includes investing in nursery centres and meal programmes to provide children with an education as early as possible, and the nutrition to get them through the school day. Nomad also funds scholarships for gifted children and provides internships within their camps. This gives youth a chance to learn about the tourism industry and how they could forge a career here. Additionally, Nomad works with partners who support education programmes that centre around sustainability and conservation.
The Nomad Tanzania Trust also provides support to healthcare facilities so that they can reach remote people in need. Nomad has partnered with The Plaster House in Arusha, a facility that offers corrective, orthopaedic, plastic surgery, neurosurgery and post-op care to children with disfigurements. This means that children can get the care they need and prevents them from being hidden by their families. Nomad also provides medicines, vaccinations, and mosquito nets for village clinics so that they can support the local communities. Additionally, they run health education and awareness campaigns and projects so that communities can learn basic health protocols and protect themselves from common and preventable illnesses. This includes teaching the community about sanitation, safe water, and pregnancy and child care.
Nomad Tanzania source local ingredients and materials and employ local people to invest in the communities in which they operate. This supports the local economy and provides an income for the families that live alongside Nomad’s camps.
‘Biashara means ‘business’ in Swahili and how we conduct our business in Tanzania is a huge part of what makes Nomad the company it is today. From inception, our founders have always believed in investing in local communities and providing opportunities for both our staff and the wider community. From the way our camps are built and where we source and purchase our interiors, to our micro-finance model that is unique within our industry, we wholeheartedly commit to making sure that the impact Nomad has on the lives of people is transformative.’
Nomad Tanzania works to protect the wildlife and environment from harm. Nomad tackles the threat posed by poachers and illegal bushmeat traders by supporting conservation organisations that monitor wildlife populations and protect these creatures from humans. Many communities face conflict with wildlife, especially when livestock are attacked, threatening the livelihood of local people. Nomad runs campaigns to persuade people to live harmoniously with wildlife and offer training for alternative sources of income to livestock agriculture, such as beekeeping and composting projects which are both beneficial to the environment.
Nomad Tanzania runs a number of village clean-up projects in the villages that lie close to their camps and border the National Parks. They work with large groups of volunteers including football teams, schoolchildren and fishermen to help pick up rubbish and keep the villages clean. After this, rubbish is sorted and appropriately disposed of. Nomad also runs village film nights that display documentaries focusing on the challenge of waste disposal and the issues posed by waste plastic. These films educate the local communities and help to persuade people to keep the villages and surrounding areas clean and plastic-free. Nomad limits the amount of plastic used in their camps as much as possible to reduce waste.
Children aged 8 years and over are welcome at Serengeti Safari Camp Central