A Morning in the Parkland Gardens

Guests often move straight from breakfast to their first safari of the day, and it's easy to miss what's right outside the restaurant door: gardens that have been growing since 1987, sheltering rare indigenous trees, flowering shrubs and a steady population of birds and butterflies.

Early morning, before the heat sets in, is the best time to walk them — you'll hear more birdsong in twenty minutes here than most of the day's jeep drive.

The gardens also frame most of our rooms, which is deliberate: after a day spent looking for wildlife at a distance, we wanted the walk back to your room to feel like an extension of it, not a return to the ordinary.