Accommodation

Sporting Wilderness offers excellent safaris using lodges, permanent tented camps and bush homes throughout Kenya and Tanzania. All are situated to take in magnificent African views. The lodges are permanent structures, many of which use local materials of wood and stone to provide high quality, low environmental impact accommodation. The permanent tented camps are similarly located. The difference is that the rooms are large tents with en suite bathrooms on wood or stone bases and the dining area is a large specially designed tent. The cuisine is imaginatively, well-prepared fresh local meat, vegetables, salads and fruit. They all stock a wide selection of wines, spirits, beer and soft drinks.

Sporting Wilderness often also uses mobile-tented camps to give flexibility to the safari. The mobile camps are comprised of traditional, heavy canvas tents, which comfortably sleep two people, plus toilet and shower tents. A small safari crew accompanies the mobile safari including an internationally trained cook. The crew provide a daily laundry service and keep the tents clean and the camp comfortable. Dining features excellent bush cuisine around the campfire under the stars or under canvas. The camps are in daily radio contact with the safari base.

At the coast, Sporting Wilderness uses luxury beach houses on the shoreline, with exclusive staff including a cook, housekeeper and gardener. The Swahili cooks can prepare an incredible variety of meals using fish, tropical fruit, coconut milk and exotic spices. Many of these reflect the influence of the foreign traders and explorers and the early settlers who followed them. These include Persians, Arabs, Portuguese, English, Goans, Indians and Italians.

For those who would like to visit local restaurants and some of Hemingway’s haunts, there is Hemingway’s Hotel in Watamu, Lawfords Bar, Tradewinds, The Old Man of the Sea and La Malindina in Malindi and The Panori Hotel in Tanga.

Vehicles

All Sporting Wilderness safaris are conducted in 4 wheel drive safari vehicles, either customized Land Rovers or Toyota Land Cruisers. The vehicles are tough, but comfortable and give practically full access across widely varying terrain. They are equipped with radio calls, cool box, car fridges and a comprehensive First Aid Kit. Big roof hatches ensure excellent game viewing and photographic opportunity.