Grumeti Serengeti River Lodge is located in the great Serengeti’s delightfully remote Western Corridor, offering seclusion, luxury and the million-year quiet which is one of the Serengeti’s many charms. “There is no feeling,” Elspeth Huxley wrote in The Flame Trees of Thika, “like being absolutely alone with creation…with nothing spoiled or sullied or abused….A whole world revolves in balance with itself more perfectly than the finest symphony.”

Morning sounds of birds and the patter of colobus monkeys across our tent tops are a symphonic prelude to a day of game viewing on the great, golden plain of the Serengeti, and at night hippos in the small lake on whose shores the camp sits galumph and snort, and as we drift off we remember that “there is no sleep so perfect that it is stirred but not broken by the thrilling vibrance of a lion’s roar,” as Ms. Huxley said. In all, Grumeti Serengeti offers a luxurious, but traditionally respectful safari experience, perhaps most dramatically during the Great Migration, when millions of wildebeest and zebras cross the Grumeti River, eagerly awaited by Nile crocodiles and other hungry predators.