Lemala Kuria Hills

A luxury tented camp in the very north of the Serengeti

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A brand new addition to the safari circuit of the northern Serengeti, Lemala Kuria Hills offers a very realistic and slightly less expensive (by a short way!) alternative to the permanent camps of Sayari and Nomad Lamai. Finished in July 2013, this luxury tented camp is certainly the flagship property of the Lemala group and offers plunge pools and views to the horizon in one of Tanzania (and Africa’s) best game viewing areas. We are definitely fans and think it will be a firm favourite!

Location

Located in the rocky outcrop that forms the top of the Wogakurya Hills, in the very north of the Serengeti, the camp is afforded spectacular views out across the surrounding grassland plains that run north to the Lamai wedge and the Masai Mara in Kenya. At around a 30 minute drive to the Mara River crossing points, this is a stunning location with interesting rock formations and very good game.

Layout

Each of the amply sized rooms is well spaced from the other, spreading on either side out from the main dining and lounge area. With so few rooms, it makes for a very pretty and peaceful configuration. The swimming pool, it is worth noting, is set, very much, out on its own, up the hill, but it too has great views out across the plains.

Rooms

The rooms are a break with the normal Lemala fare and are huge, spacious and eclectically designed affairs. To say that they are luxurious is an understatement as they have a small reclining area inside and outside, along with small plunge pool and, of course, the views.

Activities

This northern area of the Serengeti has resident game year round but really comes into its own from around the start of July until the end of November, when the migration herds are in the region. Due to the nature of the main rains, many of the driving routes are washed away each season and, as such, it gives the drivers license to head where they like (to a certain extent) which means that you are afforded the possibility of both walking and driving off road in the region.

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Lemala Kuria Hills..... this was a phenomenal place. The staff were charming and helpful, food delicious and the 'tents' were not tents as I had imagined at all!!! Here, we were accompanied at night to shoo away Buffalo and the hyenas, being lulled to sleep by yet more animals..... all rather unimaginable, now we are back home.

Two and a half more days of fantastic animals and great fun with Miraji.... he tolerated us singing 'when I was a young warthog' from the Lion king...hideously predictable! every time we saw a warthog, he searched hard to find the leopard cubs for Lizzie and sang spider man every time we saw the red and blue lizard that she called The spider man Lizard!

A thoroughly nice man....who also tolerated a couple of family tiffs and then came and sat with David at night to go through his photos and rename all the birds they saw (up to 100 different ones - as we knew we would struggle once home. He thought nothing of throwing us around in the jeep (to our great amusement) to get us to The River Crossing....a truly breath taking sight....unfortunately final score was: Wildebeast 3000 Crocs 3; did look at all three girls sitting with tears rolling down their cheeks at this sight, sad though at the same time, understanding this is the harsher reality of the animals life
here); We later saw a cheetah kill a baby Thomsons Gazelle.

- Emma and family, October 2017
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Frankly, beyond belief, awesome in every single way!

- Dyan and family, August, 2016
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Lemala Kuria Hills was fantastic. The rooms are incredible (the best I've stayed in) and the staff were wonderful. My only criticism would be the food. It wasn't bad but it was a bit bland and boring. It was such an incredible few days though so it certainly wasn't an issue.

Our guide, Nsia, was brilliant. We saw everything including a baby leopard, which was my highlight :)

- Douglas and Josie, September, 2015
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