Ngorongoro Crater Camp, an A&K Sanctuary

The communal tents were designed with East African studio JPN Interior Design, in a palette of charcoal, warm browns and muted sage. Curved forms borrow from the crater's own contours and from Maasai design traditions. Locally cut Tanga stone runs through the spaces, and handwoven sisal screens, made on site by Tanzanian artisans, divide them. The showstopper is a three-metre chandelier of painted jacaranda seed pods hanging over the lounge.

All 10 tented suites come with polished hardwood floors, a muslin-draped king-size bed and a spacious ensuite bathroom. Glass doors slide open onto a private deck, angled to catch the Serengeti view rather than each other. Furniture was handcrafted in Arusha workshops and dressed with pieces from Women Craft, the basket-weaving collective that supports more than 600 Tanzanian artisans. Existing furniture from the camp was restored rather than binned, which we rather love.

Game drives into the Ngorongoro Crater remain the main event: early or late in the day, in a closed 4x4, amid wildebeest, buffalo, hyena and, if you're fortunate, black rhino. But the new setting means you're just as well placed for the Great Migration's calving grounds at Ndutu (seasonal), the ancient rock art at Nasera, the moving dune known as the Shifting Sands, or Olduvai Gorge Museum, built where some of humanity's oldest fossils turned up. A Maasai village visit rounds things off nicely.