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Camps, Lodges & Hotels
Deeply rooted in history, the safari camp or sporting lodge is a ‘home from home’ comfort whilst on safari, shooting, fishing or hunting, with African hunting adventures truly popularising the safari camp and the Scottish lodge being the 'primitive overnight shelter' for major landowners and clan chiefs, when out on the moor, river or high hill.
Colonial style African safari camps represent the most luxurious, authentic and eco-friendly form of safari accommodation – all our African safari itineraries are designed around low-impact, authentic canvas tented camps!
– there is nothing more exhilarating than falling asleep under canvas and hearing nature’s calls: from the distant roaring of lions to the beautiful lullaby of a nightjar, to waking up to the melodic chorus of birds at sunrise.
Our hunting lodges of Scotland and Europe though based on local traditional culture, provide more modern conveniences such as internet access, televisions, climate control, and are relatively easy to access.
For further information on African safari camp and hunting lodge environmental impact and facilities, please give us a call on...
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Bespoke
We are passionate about providing the more authentic experience as possible for our guests, and indeed could provide ‘primitive overnight shelter’ (‘cave of Lonavey’ 1 see Red Deer) a moorland bothy while out grouse shooting, or a mud, cow dung Himba hut (see Namibia > KAOKOLAND) but our sybaritic beliefs would seek to provide a more luxurious dinning and retiring arrangements.
Matching the right Private House or Sporting Lodge to our guests is critical to ensuring that any sporting escape is a memorable one, especially when accompanied by non-sporting participating partners!
“The Great Highland Chiefs, when they sallied out to shoot over distant
parts of their estates, were content to abide in dwellings, which the
autocratic sporting tenant of our day would account a social impossibility.
They thought it no hardship, but an agreeable variation of their normal
domesticities, to sleep in a wattled hut in the high corrie or open moor,
and live on the produce, from day to day, of the gun.”
- George Malcolm & Aymer Maxwell, ‘Grouse and Grouse Moors’ 1910
References:
1 McCombie Smith, W. (1982) Lonavey. In, The Romance of Poaching in the Highlands.
Tideline Books. 30-44.
CAMPS & LODGES
SAFARI CAMPS
It was African hunting that truly popularised the safari camp with classic, authentic, colonial style camps representing the most luxurious, low-impact and eco-friendly form of safari accommodation...
HUNTING LODGES
The Normans brought to England the concept of forest law, and in turn the Hunting Lodge - often on the edge of a forest or within a park to shelter a hunting party at need, and house a custodian at other times...
