Wilderness Linkwasha

There are nine tented suites, including a family room, with contemporary interiors and Ndebele-style painted walls, cushions and baskets. They look over a waterhole shaded by leadwood trees, and there is a pool and a sleep-out deck. The surrounding concessions mix teak woodland, grassland, vleis and pans, with 14 solar-hybrid pumped pans that keep water available through the dry season.

Game drives run early and late in the day across the Linkwasha and Makalolo concessions, where at least two lion prides are established and wild dog and cheetah also turn up. The sunken hide puts you at ground level with drinking elephants, and the Star Bed gives you a night under the stars. In the green season plains game have their young on the Ngamo Plains.

Linkwasha suits families and larger groups, as well as anyone who likes a comfortable, contemporary camp. It is the larger and more polished of the Wilderness camps in this area, so couples looking for something smaller and more traditional may prefer Little Makalolo. Activities here focus on drives and the hide rather than walking, so if you want time on foot, add a night or two at Davison's.