Canvas-walled suites pitched directly within the wild. Experience real beds, fully equipped en-suite bathrooms, and the proximity of nature, ranging from classic permanent camps to seasonal mobile setups that follow the migration.
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Get your free quote→A premium tented camp trades stone walls for high-grade canvas without sacrificing comfort. Our curated properties feature proper beds, fine linens, private en-suite bathrooms, and elegant main mess tents for shared dining. Whether fixed in one prime location year-round or structurally mobile to track the Great Migration, these camps offer an immersive experience where only a canvas wall separates you from the sounds of the African night.
Every property is independently run — here's the shape of what's typically included at this style of stay.
Substantial bedding, premium linens, and private en-suite bathrooms that elevate the experience far above traditional camping.
Accommodations tailored to your travel goals, featuring permanent year-round positions or seasonal mobile relocations timed to mirror wildlife movements.
Atmospheric, shared dining experiences and evening sundowners around the campfire that capture the authentic heritage of safari travel.
Proactive safety measures as standard practice, with trained camp staff escorting you safely between your tent and the main areas after dark.
We partner directly with these properties and book your stay for you — one reservation, our negotiated rate, built into your itinerary.
Kichakani is a genuinely mobile camp — struck and re-pitched several times a year to stay positioned on the Great Migration's path through the Serengeti. Despite moving with the herds, each tent is fully en-suite with proper beds and a private deck, and the mess tent moves with it, so the level of comfort doesn't drop just because the camp does.
Mahali Mzuri is a 12-tent luxury camp in the Olare Motorogi Conservancy bordering the Masai Mara, owned by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Limited Edition. Each canvas suite is raised on a wooden deck with wraparound views of the conservancy, and the camp's conservancy location allows for night drives and off-road viewing not permitted inside the national reserve itself.
Set among a working tea estate at the edge of Nyungwe Forest, One Nature Nyungwe House blends tented-style suites with lodge-grade finishing, all looking out over rolling tea fields toward the forest canopy where the park's chimpanzee tracking begins. It's the most comfortable base on this side of Rwanda for chimp trekking and canopy-walk visits.
Bwindi Lodge's eco-tented cottages sit on a forested ridge overlooking the national park, built almost entirely from local materials by the same conservation-tourism group behind several of Uganda and Rwanda's primate-trekking lodges. The setting is quiet and immersive, with the forest's birdlife and primate calls audible from the deck of every tent.
Buhoma Lodge sits right at the edge of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, a short walk from the park headquarters where gorilla trekking groups assemble each morning. Its raised, thatched-and-canvas cottages look directly onto the forest canopy, and the lodge's community-ownership model means trekking fees support the surrounding villages directly.
Nkorombo is one of Serian's classic, smaller-footprint camps — just a handful of canvas tents set along a riverine forest line in the Mara, run in the original mobile-safari spirit with no fences and a strong focus on experienced, long-serving guides over scale. It suits travellers who want the authentic tented-camp feel without sacrificing real comfort.
