Our next and final lodge had spectacular views across the Serengeti, all of it laid out before you. It also had the hardest beds in the world and the worst soup we had experienced! The services wasn't the best on the trip either but the local troop of baboons provide early morning entertainment. If you can stay somewhere else, I would, but there aren’t many options. All the migration had left this area. However on our drive round the Water Pumb circuit, th...

Our next stop was another tented camp, this one with guards to escort you around the site after dark to protect you from lions etc. Didn't get that with Eurocamp. Bariki was the chattiest of the guards. In many countries, we might have dismissed his behavior as classic 'flirting for tips’ but Tanzanians genuinely like to chat. Godfrey talked at leangth about how amazed and confused he was when he went to Kenya and people didn’t say hello to him on t...

This is our first camp of the trip. But this is not like staying a three-man pop-up tent at Glastonbury. It's a cabin, with double bed and en-suite. It just so happens that most of the walls are made of canvas. The camp is run by locals, including some Masai. Apparently, as the camp is in a Masai area we are their guests on their land, rather than customers. Oh, and the view from the tents is spectacular – you’re in the middle of nowhere, but what a b...