Loliondo has never simply been about 'just more Serengeti', so we wanted our camp here to be a tented camp with a difference; one that reflected the space and freedom that, to us, define the area. The yurts - each of them 8 metres in diameter - do just that.

With wide panoramic windows, the interiors of the yurts are light and airy, whilst the sheepskin hot water bottles and piping hot safari showers keep you warm in even the crispest of highland mornings.  Each tent has its own spacious  ensuite bathroom with water, heated in firewood boilers, brought on demand.

And like the Maasai, Nduara Loliondo is nomadic; every 6 months, the camp is packed up and moved. In Ololosokwan, where you'll find the camp between June and November, the tents sit high on a ridge with commanding views over a broad acacia-lined valley.  In the mornings and evenings the sights and sounds of Maasai life permeate the air as cattle move too and from a local manyatta.

In Piyaya, to the South, where the camp moves between December and May, the scenery changes dramatically and the yurts sit beneath vast skies on the edge of wide and endless plains.  The main mess and dining areas, beside a mature spreading acacia tree, look out over a small vlei.

Nduara is somewhere you can be highly active.  With walks lead by local Maasai morani, picnics, game drives and night drives, all planned with your guide to allow you to take things at your own pace.  If you feel like it you can be busy all day.

But after a few days charging around in the Serengeti most of our guests take the opportunity to

really kick back here.  Nduara lends itself to lazy mornings, relaxed lunches, or time just sitting and reading. 

And after a while, the rhythm of life, the comings and goings of cattle, the meal times becomes deeply seductive and you begin to remember how it feels not to do anything.