We’ve Arrived

We landed on a small dirt landing strip at the base of a hill in the Serengeti.

We were immediately met by our guide, Aloyse. He is a native Tanzanian who has been a guide for Signita for the last seven years. We will be staying at one camp and two lodges over the next eight nights.

“Singita Grumeti, situated adjacent to the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, is an integral part of the Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem, the home of the Great Migration. The reserve was created by the Tanzanian government in 1994 in order to protect the path of the annual wildebeest migration and the indigenous biodiversity of this vast and important ecosystem. In 2002, the Grumeti Community and Wildlife Conservation Fund, a not-for-profit organisation, was granted the right to manage and conserve these 350,000 acres, for the benefit of Tanzania, Africa and the world. Four years later, Singita took over the management of the property, at the request of the concessionaire and began the task of generating, via low impact tourism, the funds necessary to ensure the long-term sustainability of the reserve through conservation and community partnerships.”

We will spending the first two nights at Signita Explore, a mobile camp. It’s a 30 minute drive from the airstrip. Almost immediately we saw a cluster of impala and Topi.