Hotel Serengeti River Camp (Mugumu)

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River Camp features 15 permanent large canvas tents with roomy sleeping quarters, one of which is a Family tent consisting of two separate bedrooms and a shared bathroom. Each tent has its own private en suite bathroom that includes running water from a marble-topped single basin vanity, a separate shower area elevated on teak wood flooring, an enclosed private flush toilet and a dressing area. Each tent is furnished with a comfortable sitting area complete with a hand-carved solid wood coffee table, a cozy chair and a quant writing desk for journaling about the days events. A grassy pathway leads to the main lounge tent which is comfortably furnished with tight back English roll- arm sofas and chairs, a perfect gathering place to enjoy good conversation or to sit quietly with a glass of wine and take in the views of the northern landscape before dinner. Meals are served in the dining area attached to the lounge. NOTE: River Camp has received permission to become a permanent camp and upgrades will begin in 2019-2020 including raising the tents on platforms with flooring and solar hot water heaters. Recognized as a World Heritage Site, Serengeti National Park is one of the most famous wildlife areas in the world and is considered the worlds oldest protected eco-system. Serengeti National Park, as we know it today, was gazetted in 1951, but a smaller area first received protection between 1921-29 by the British, to prevent decimation of the lion population from hunting. The park itself is 5,700 square miles, but the more extensive Serengeti eco-system is over 9,600 square miles of protected land from Ngorongoro all the way to Loliondo and Kenya (the smaller Maasai Mara) and including the Maswa Game Reserve on the southern boundary of the park. The Serengeti is the largest national park in Tanzania, with a staggering animal population of almost four million and 523 recorded species of birds! It is the largest wildlife sanctuary in the world and the site of one of the most breath taking events in animal kingdom-the migration of more than 1.4 million wildebeest and another 250,000 zebra. The area consists of treeless central plain, savannah dotted with acacia and granite outcroppings called kopjes, and riverine bush and forest in the north. The famous Migration that people dream to experience is actually a dynamic process taking a full year to complete. There are different events that happen at different times of the year and in different locations in this park; calving, rut and river crossings. The basic migration occurs in a clock-wise direction but is guided by rain and the growth of grass, so at any time the animals can ignore tradition and just follow rain clouds in a more haphazard direction.