ENVI Lodges, a pioneering luxury ecolodge brand known for its commitment to sustainability and immersive experiences in nature, has unveiled a luxury tented camp in Tanzania’s world-famous Serengeti National Park.

Opening its doors in July 1, ENVI Sisini Serengeti is an exclusive ecolodge with a remote location. Featuring just 11 luxury tents and tented villas, it is perched on a hill in the depths of Tanzania’s vibrant bushland, with magnificent savannah views and a mountainous landscape as its backdrop.

This area of the Serengeti is teeming with the indigenous animals for which East Africa is known, including lions, leopards, rhinoceros, buffalo, elephants, giraffes and zebras.

With no boundaries separating the lodge from the wilderness, and a resident pride of lions close by, guests are promised a thrilling wildlife experience throughout their stay.

Luxurious tents blend seamlessly with these natural surroundings, each with its own private location and uninterrupted views.

There are six elegantly furnished tented villas with one bedroom and another with two bedrooms, designed for families, each with an outdoor shower, bathtub, pool, furnished outdoor decking and cooking facilities.

A personal butler service is available to guests staying in the family villa. For those seeking to fully embrace the Serengeti’s spirit of adventure, the two-bedroom family tent and three one-bedroom tents are deeply immersed in the park’s rugged wilderness, for an upscale camping experience.

Facilities at ENVI Sisini Serengeti, located just a one-hour drive from the park’s Seronera airstrip, include a spacious open-plan reception, two restaurants serving local and international cuisine, a lounge, two bars, a wine cellar, a spa, gym, and a two-level fire pit area for intimate guest gatherings.

The lodge’s team, comprising local Tanzanians, takes care of guests from the moment they land at the airstrip, providing refreshments on arrival and private air-conditioned transfers to the ecolodge, with plenty of wildlife-spotting opportunities along the way.

Central to the lodge experience, they curate exceptional wildlife safaris, with the chance to get close to Africa’s famous ‘Big Five’ a big draw card.

Committed to sustainable operations, the lodge is solar powered, sources fresh produce from local villages and farms, and provides every guest with a refillable water bottle on arrival.

Bathroom amenities are sourced from an all-women corporation that creates skincare products from carefully selected African-grown botanicals, oils and essences, all made by hand.

“ENVI Sisini Serengeti epitomises ENVI’s dedication to creating unparalleled experiences that blend luxury, nature and adventure in a responsible way,” said Paul Jordaan, Executive Director, ENVI Lodges.

“Offering much more than stay, our lodge promises guests a transformative journey encompassing breathtaking landscapes and awe-inspiring wildlife in one of the world’s top safari destinations.”

ENVI Lodges is set to open two more properties in Tanzania by the end of 2025, with sustainable beachfront lodge, ENVI Paje, featuring 23 low-impact villas with private pools and ENVI Kili, located on the outskirts of Arusha – a traditional Serengeti stopover destination – offering 22 keys.

All three lodges capitalise on Tanzania’s fast-growing tourism industry, identified as one of five most-improved emerging economies globally for travel and tourism development since 2019 in a new World Economic Forum (WEF) report.

The country jumped seven spots to 81st in WEF’s Travel & Tourism Development Index rankings for 2024, noting Tanzania’s travel sector hit a new record in 2023 with 1.8 million arrivals, up 24.3% on 1.45 million in 2022, and generating all-time-high tourism receipts of $3.36 billion 2023, compared to a pre-pandemic (2019) high of $2.6 billion. – TradeArabia News Service