Need to know
Rooms
17, including two villa-like Retreats.
Check–Out
10am. Check-in is at 2pm, although if you arrive earlier, you’re welcome to use the camp’s communal spaces until your room is ready. Please note that late check-out may incur additional charges for park fees, food, drink and transport.
More details
Rates at Sayari Camp include all meals and drinks (except premium wines), limited laundry service, open-vehicle game drives, seasonal walking safaris (age 12+) and return shared transfers to Kogatende Airstrip.
Also
Unfortunately, this remote camp is not suitable if you have limited mobility.
Hotel closed
Sayari Camp opens annually from 1 June until 31 March.
At the hotel
Boutique, information centre and library, and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: radio, electric fan, torch, USB charging ports, coffee-making kit, free bottled water, mosquito net, laundry detergent, bathrobes, slippers and Healing Earth bath products. Stays at the camp’s Retreats come with a private chef, host and dedicated safari vehicle and guide.
Our favourite rooms
The exclusivity that comes with the camp’s two Retreats is enticing for larger families or groups of friends: your own safari vehicle and guide, Retreat host and private chef make stays here a breeze, and there’s a shared pool and extra dining space for your use. Tented Suites come in a choice of set-ups for either couples or families, but all are pitched for indoor-outdoor living with nature-spying bath tubs and expansive decks.
Poolside
Beside the main lodge, an enticing pool is your sociable cooling-off spot, edged by loungers and open from 7am until 7pm daily.
Spa
Sayari is one of Asilia Africa’s more luxurious camps, set up for soothing spa therapies that are a tonic to action-packed days. Treatments rooted in natural healing and traditional practices can be arranged at various secluded spots around camp.
Packing tips
The analogue adventures that await feel worthy of a scrapbook project, or at least a handwritten journal, so perhaps pack a notebook and be prepared to bring back tickets, feathers and sketches for your memory trove.
Also
Once you’ve booked your safari stays, the Asilia team will be in touch within 48 hours to help arrange travel between camps, which may include charter or private small-plane flights and/or overland transfers.
Children
Sayari Camp welcomes children aged five or older. For some activities, such as walking safaris, the minimum age is 12 years old; younger Smiths will need to stay at camp, supervised by one of their adults.
Sustainability efforts
Asilia is a B Corp business and sustainability sits at the core of their safari offering, with camps designed to have minimal impact, and every operational choice rooted in reducing harm. This starts with the camp build itself, using locally sourced, natural materials. Across all safari operations they minimise waste, prioritise renewable energy and respect the wilderness. The primary power source in their camps is solar, waste is weighed, segregated, and recycled, emissions are tracked, and Scope 1 carbon is offset via REDD+ projects.
Asilia invests in initiatives that enhance sustainability and your experience at their camps, such as farm-to-fork projects that ensure the freshest produce and reduce the need for supply runs across the fragile landscapes where they operate. As part of the Nawiri Group, Asilia contributes over $10m annually to nature protection and impact funding, providing long-term stable funding to partners across Africa. Their impact approach is community-led and includes a focus on expanding access to quality education in rural areas, funding programmes that benefit over 20,000 primary school students and over 200 vocational scholarships annually.
