Singita just reopened Explore, a private camp inside Tanzania’s Singita Grumeti Reserve where only one group can stay at a time. Guests share the plains with wildlife herds, balanite trees and desert date trees, with nothing but canvas walls separating them from the open bush. The whole camp belongs to whoever books it, with no other guests checking in the next day.
Singita reopened the camp with a sharper focus on what drives the whole brand: pulling guests closer to nature. Designers stripped the spaces back on purpose. A central gathering area holds the kitchen, a dining gazebo and a fireplace.
The tents on either side can become a kids’ space, a treatment room or a library, depending on who’s staying. Fire does most of the work once the sun goes down. It provides light, warmth and a spot to gather under the stars.
Bookings Open This Month for the Reopened Camp
Bookings for Singita Explore opened on Aug. 20, 2026. The camp closes every year between March and May for the region’s rainy season.
Explore is one of 19 Singita luxury safari properties across South Africa, Tanzania, Rwanda and Zimbabwe. The company plans to open its first Botswana camp in the Okavango Delta this December.
Days Follow the Weather, Not a Clock
At Explore, a human voice wakes guests at sunrise instead of an alarm. Weather decides the day’s activities, not a printed schedule. Explore serves meals cooked over open flames, and guests eat outside by the fire.
Evenings end with guests trading stories around the embers under the stars. Comfort here comes from simple things: fire, fresh air, fans, cold showers, hot water bottles and layers of blankets.
Guests Can Join Anti-Poaching Patrols and Farm Visits
Singita built Explore’s conservation programming around its partnership with the Grumeti Fund, a nonprofit that manages conservation work across the reserve. Guests can visit the Fund’s RISE Center and Environmental Education Center. They can also tour GHOMACOS, an organic farming cooperative that supplies food to Singita’s kitchens and staff canteens.
Some guests meet the Fund’s Anti-Poaching Canine Unit and watch the dogs and handlers work. Others hike to one of the Fund’s Anti-Poaching Observation Posts, where scouts explain their work over a picnic with sweeping views of the Serengeti.
Explore doesn’t suit travelers chasing a packed itinerary. It offers one camp, one group and a few days with nothing on the calendar. Guests get the whole camp to themselves, with no neighbors at breakfast and no strangers on a game drive; just the plains and whoever came along for the ride.