Sayari Camp
Professional plains spotter
Mara River margins
In a game-blessed tract of the northern Serengeti, our binoculars are trained on Asilia Africa’s fabulously feathered safari stay, Sayari Camp. Although it’s set close to the Mara River — primed for crossings of herds during the Great Migration — and welcomes manifold visiting birds, there’s nothing transitory about its raft of cosseting frills, from deck-wrapped tented suites to spa treatments and game drives.
Once you’ve booked your chosen stays, the Asilia team will work to be in touch, on business days, within 48 hours, to help arrange travel between camps, which may include charter or private small-plane flights and/or overland transfers.
Facilities
Номера
17, including two villa-like Retreats.
Checkout
10am. Check-in is at 2pm, although if you arrive earlier, you’re welcome to use the camp’s communal spaces until your room is ready. Please note that late check-out may incur additional charges for park fees, food, drink and transport.
Больше сведений
Rates at Sayari Camp include all meals and drinks (except premium wines), limited laundry service, open-vehicle game drives, seasonal walking safaris (age 12+) and return shared transfers to Kogatende Airstrip.
Also
Unfortunately, this remote camp is not suitable if you have limited mobility.
Hotel Closed
Sayari Camp opens annually from 1 June until 31 March.
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Спа
At the Hotel
Boutique, information centre and library, and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: radio, electric fan, torch, USB charging ports, coffee-making kit, free bottled water, mosquito net, laundry detergent, bathrobes, slippers and Healing Earth bath products. Stays at the camp’s Retreats come with a private chef, host and dedicated safari vehicle and guide.
Our Favourite Rooms
The exclusivity that comes with the camp’s two Retreats is enticing for larger families or groups of friends: your own safari vehicle and guide, Retreat host and private chef make stays here a breeze, and there’s a shared pool and extra dining space for your use. Tented Suites come in a choice of set-ups for either couples or families, but all are pitched for indoor-outdoor living with nature-spying bath tubs and expansive decks.
Poolside
Beside the main lodge, an enticing pool is your sociable cooling-off spot, edged by loungers and open from 7am until 7pm daily.
Spa
Sayari is one of Asilia Africa’s more luxurious camps, set up for soothing spa therapies that are a tonic to action-packed days. Treatments rooted in natural healing and traditional practices can be arranged at various secluded spots around camp.
Packing Tips
The analogue adventures that await feel worthy of a scrapbook project, or at least a handwritten journal, so perhaps pack a notebook and be prepared to bring back tickets, feathers and sketches for your memory trove.
Also
Once you’ve booked your safari stays, the Asilia team will be in touch within 48 hours, on business days, to help arrange travel between camps, which may include charter or private small-plane flights and/or overland transfers.
Дети
Sayari Camp welcomes children aged five or older. For some activities, such as walking safaris, the minimum age is 12 years old; younger Smiths will need to stay at camp, supervised by one of their adults.
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Food & Drink
Top Table
Dining at Sayari is a convivial affair that’s set up communally, unless you request an individual table.
Дресс-код
Come as you are in this remote, outdoorsy stay.
Hotel Restaurant
Expect farm-to-fork dining that showcases seasonality and is proudly low on food miles. A commitment to sustainability and a celebration of local, indigenous ingredients underpin Asilia Africa’s approach to cuisine across all camps. Breads, cakes and even ice-creams are made freshly in-house, and dishes are always paired with South African wines.
At Sayari Camp, breakfast might be a picnic in the bush consisting of fresh fruits, yoghurt, muesli, freshly squeezed juices, baked pastries, breakfast sandwiches and wraps. But if you're staying in camp, you also have an option to start your day with hot dishes à la carte.
Across all Asilia Africa camps, the menu changes by the day; at each meal, there’ll be a choice of starters, mains, sides and desserts, with vegetarians as well served as meat eaters. Lunch on Wednesdays and dinner on Sundays are a distinctly Swahili affair, spotlighting local culinary traditions. If you have food preferences or dietary requirements, the camp’s kitchen team will be happy to adapt dishes to suit.
If you’re staying at the camp’s Retreats, a chef and host are on hand to take care of all your dining needs.
Hotel Bar
Drinks can be ordered to your preferred watering hole around camp, but the lounge at the main lodge scores well for both comfort and sociability.
Last Orders
Rather than working to scheduled hours, meals fit around your plans and staff are happy to flex to meet your wishes.
Room Service
Available 24 hours: you can order drinks and snacks to your suite; meals, too, can be arranged chez vous.
Planes
From Kilimanjaro, Arusha or Dar Es Salaam airports, connecting flights touch down at Kogatende Airstrip, where you’ll be met by Asilia staff for the 20-minute shared transfer to Sayari Camp, included with your stay. Private transfers can be arranged for an extra charge.
Automobiles
All the driving at Sayari is taken care of by trained staff using Asilia vehicles.
Worth Getting Out of Bed For
Lion, leopard, cheetah and black rhino are among the resident wildlife that make this patch of northern Serengeti surrounding Sayari Camp their home, with zebra and wildebeest river crossings of the croc-patrolled Mara an annual phenomenon from July to October. Game drives and seasonal walking safaris serve up tantalising tableaux, with bush breakfasts and picnics bringing a culinary dimension to being out in nature. Hot-air balloon trips, photographic safaris and cultural visits to nearby villages are your trip-enriching optional extras. Back at base, staff are happy to arrange massage treatments, or you could simply choose to chill out with a swim in the pool or drinks at the lodge.
Let Sayari Camp be the filling in your Tanzanian sandwich when you join up your stay here with three nights at other Asilia camps either side. Start your trip at eastern Serengeti’s Namiri Plains, in what was once a big cat research area. Namiri and Sayari are also well-matched in terms of comfort, each with a pool and spa treatments. After Sayari, Jabali Ridge in southern Tanzania introduces a different, riverine landscape in Ruaha National Park, rich in populations of elephant and big cats.
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