Kirurumu Under Canvas

27/01/2022

Elephant family is back again 🐘🐘 visiting our lodge with a new little member 🐘

25/12/2018

06/12/2018

Classic Mobile Tented Camp : Kirurumu Serengeti Moru Camp will be opening from 20 Nov 2018 at special discounted rates for all bookings from the 20th Nov through to 20 Dec 2018.

06/12/2018

The Best Resident Rates at Kirurumu Tarangire

05/12/2018

International Cheetah Day 2018

Mother cheetah teaching cub to hunt.
Photo by Peter Lindstrom.

13/09/2018

Make sure you are at the APTA National Forum in Denver this week so you can hear Peter Lindstrom speak about the Changing Dynamics of Community Based Tourism in East Africa. You don’t want to miss his presentation “Talking with the Elders … and Now the Youngers.” Peter Lindstrom, Kenya born ...

13/09/2018

Make sure you are at the APTA National Forum in Denver this week so you can hear Peter Lindstrom speak about the Changing Dynamics of Community Based Tourism in East Africa. You don't want to miss his presentation "Talking with the Elders ... and Now the Youngers."

Peter Lindstrom, Kenya born of Danish parents, grew up on a coffee farm where he his love of wide open spaces and leaned bush craft from his African companions.
He was educated in Kenya before completing his studies in England in natural sciences before returning to Kenya with his wife Aletta.
With ambitions to be involved in Tourism he was employed briefly managing tented camps. One such camp belonging to Root and Leakey safaris was contracted to provide Oilfield exploration teams and it was this quirk of fate that determined many years to come. Ethiopia became a new theatre of exploration and the chance to visit this country was exciting and hungry for adventure Peter and his Kenyan camp and camp crew drove to a country little known to outsiders and with a King, Haile Selassie, “The Lion of Judah.”
A revolution put an end to Peter’ s brief sojourn in Ethiopia the die was cast for the next two decades of remote area logistical support and camp services throughout the African and near East before his closing the circle and returning to his roots and finally a migration to Tanzania to cofound a Safari Company Hoopoe safaris which now operates in East Africa.
In the past two decades Hoopoe has been one of the pioneers in Tanzania Community based Tourism and increasingly involved in Conservation particularly advocacy during the industrial scale poaching of elephant. He has a passion for wildlife photography, running and mountain biking and cooking with an African flavor. Training of the Hoopoe Safari guides and all that is good guiding is an essential and enjoyable part of Peter’s time.

05/11/2017

Small correction....the new building is a clinic and was primarily funded by us and 20 years ago we built two classrooms for our local School and more recently completely refurbished the two classrooms. We are also contributed to a new school for our immediate neighbours near the lodge. The biggest single contribution though over time is that 80 per cent of our employees come from local communities and we have over 50 lodge employees . Some who started in unskilled positions are senior staff members thanks to in house training ...no myth in skills transfers from expats. We are 100 per cent Tanzanian staffed now in all our camps and properties.

04/11/2017

Twenty years ago we built the school for our local community at Haduma, and in 2017 we started building the hospital as a continuous show of support for the community we live and work in.

06/10/2017

Congratulations! We are proud to be involved with this project and delighted with Rian's recognition from Tusk Trust.

Arusha, 5 October 2017 – Yesterday, the 2017 winners of the Tusk Conservation Awards were announced in Cape Town. Rian Labuschagne, project leader of Frankfurt Zoological Society’s Serengeti

15/08/2017

The banana sellers below the Great Rift Valley escarpment wall by Manyara National Park gate.