Have drinks beside the River Serengeti or take a dip in the plunge pool
(Picture: andBeyond )Dotted delicately along the banks of a Grumeti River offshoot in the Serengeti’s remote Western Corridor, pods of hippo wallow and bluster just metres from the andBeyond Grumeti Serengeti River Lodge, while characterful troops of olive baboons preen and parade as you sip your morning iced coffee.
With its iconic wildebeest migration, the Serengeti lures-in safari-goers in huge numbers, but this lesser-visited part of the national park – filled with sprawling lion prides and rare wizard-like colobus monkeys – feels blissfully wild and isolated, as if you’re the only humans on earth.
