(EMAILWIRE.COM, May 18, 2010 ) NAIROBI, Kenya---Lukula Selous was recently named as one of the award-winning properties in Conde Nast Traveler’s Annual “Hot List” in the May 2010 issue. Lukula Selous Camp, part of the portfolio of travel specialist Bush and Beyond, is located within the Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania and is one of the largest wildlife sanctuaries in the world.
Conde Nast’s “Hot List” issue highlighted 134 properties spread across 55 countries and were awarded a place on the list based on “their blend of style, service, technology, and transporting aura.”
Lukula Selous is located on the banks of the Luwego River and has only four luxurious and spacious tents which provide an authentic and stylish wilderness retreat and experience. Selous is world renowned for its wild character and large populations of elephant, buffalo, lion, and African wild dog. Lukula Selous is a private photographic sanctuary of over 300,000 acres that only allows one group into the entire area at any one time.
Text from Conde Nast Traveler “Hot List 2010”
May, 2010
Selous Project
“Safari lodges have been locked in an amenities arms race of increasingly tricked-out SUVs and villas citadeled in a mess of marble bathrooms and infinity pools. With just four tents in a 300,000-acre protected wildlife reserve, the Selous Project is an ambitious new camp that harks back to the original Swahili meaning of the word safari: journey. Instead of passively watching animals from a jeep, you'll jump out to track them on foot, hiding in grassy outcrops to photograph elephants and hippos swimming in the river. Overnight portered safaris and fly-camping get you even closer to the rhythms of the reserve with mesh tents that allow you to fall asleep under a blanket of stars and awake with the first pink rays of sunrise. The main camp sits in the shade of a riverine forest on the banks of the Luwego, and the sizable tents were designed based on nineteenth-century British army specifications, with elegant campaign furniture constructed from reclaimed hardwoods, flickering antique hurricane lamps, and handsome Egyptian rugs. Solar panels harnessing energy for the camp top shaded daybeds on stilts in the river. Even more important, the project is creating a model for sustainable tourism in Tanzania by converting an area that would otherwise be used for big game hunting, protecting the diversity that makes this one of Africa's last great untouched wilderness areas.
Which room to book: At just four tents, you can't go wrong, but those nervous about things that go bump (or roar) in the night might feel more at ease in the tent bordering the common area.”
