The Big 5, Classic Luxury Safari

 One-of-a-kind African getaway that blends wildlife, luxury, and sustainability? Serval Wildlife Lodge is more than just a lodge — it's a conservation-conscious haven nestled in the heart of Tanzania. This boutique property offers an exclusive safari experience that invites guests to stay in close harmony with nature, all while enjoying world-class amenities.

Whether you're a nature enthusiast, honeymooner, family traveler, or simply seeking solitude with a view, Serval Wildlife Lodge delivers a safari stay that’s both authentic and exceptionally comfortable  Serval wildlife lodge 

Picture yourself talking with a bbeutiful giraffe, a selfie with a smiling zebras

VIsit the inspiring AGAMA CHARITY -Harambee Centre and after lunch Drive to Tarangire National Park and the Nimali Lodge, a classic example of beautifully designed modern lodge architecture.

Tarangire is an apt place to begin a wildlife safari. Home to just about all the headliner beasts, including a large and robust elephant population, Tarangire also shelters such rarities as the fringe-eared oryx and the long-necked gerenuk, a particularly winsome and creatively constructed antelope. Tarangire charms us with its exemplary African landscapes: acacia trees, brawny brown hills, sweeping vistas, 

clear nights of “soft velvet,” as Elspeth Huxley wrote. 

“[Like] a warm conservancy whose great dome was encrusted with all the diamonds in the world, and all the scents in the world were there too, changing like currents in the sea.”

  NIMALI TARANGIRE

Nimali Lodge  

Set alongside a dry riverbed peppered with huge granite boulders and well hidden amongst the acacia and baobab trees, Nimali Tarangire sits peacefully in its own private concession, adjacent to the eastern boundary of Tarangire National Park and, most importantly, away from the mainstream vehicles visiting the National Park. No-one else is allowed to drive within our own private concession and we use open vehicles for all of our game activities. This is true luxury African safari.

Accommodation ( Nimali Lodge)

We drive from Tarangire up into the green Crater Highlands, weaving our way to the serene and view-rich O’ldeani Mountain lodge, from which we’ll make a full-day game drive into the fabled Ngorongoro Crater.

As geologic masterpieces go, Ngorongoro has had quite a career. It’s been a gigantic peak, perhaps a rival of Kilimanjaro, and, after it blew its snowy top in what must have been a rather impressive explosion (our forefathers over at the nearby Olduvai Gorge, busy getting their humanoid act together, probably saw it), Ngorongoro spent many millennia as an alternately quiet and occasionally bubbling lava lake. Now in an extended pacific mood, the crater is home to upwards of 25,000 personality-rich animals, who roam—as we will—over a sweetly lush area larger than 76 Central Parks.

Accommodation (Ngorongoro O'lidean Lodge)

After stopping at Olduvai, the symbolic wellspring of our DNA, we drop down to the Serengeti, the known universe’s largest (and, happily for us, most wonderfully watchable) collection of illustrious mammals: elephants, giraffes, tumbling pool-fulls of hippos, elegantly slinking serval cats, zebras with incredibly muscular haunches (leading us to wonder why they were never ridden— very weak backs, that’s why), and scores of species more, all of them going about their business unconcerned by the likes of us.

 (“But make no mistake,” an old Africa hand once wrote, “these aren’t theme parks. The truest owners of these lands are the animals who roam them free and, if that’s their nature, fiercely.”)

We’ll soak up the essence of the Serengeti from the Serengeti Four seasons Safari Lodge  set on an escarpment overlooking the seemingly limitless plains, enjoying a sundowner after a game drive, watching clouds build up as the day cools, big clouds that “look like you could scoop them up with a spoon,” Elspeth Huxley wrote.

 Serengeti four season lodge

• 3 meals included

Connect with your flights home and sweetly dream, perhaps, about your next AGAMA TOURS