Travel for Two: Wild meets serene at Tanzinia’s Grumeti Game Reserve

Travel for Two: Wild meets serene at Tanzinia’s Grumeti Game Reserve
The view seems to go on forever from Singita Sasakwa Lodge, atop Sasakwa Hill in the Grumeti Game Reserve that is part of the Serengeti-Masai Mara ecosystem. The wildlife-filled reserve is home to Cape buffalo, rhino, elephant, lion and leopard, Africa's so-called Big Five. Mary Ann Anderson/TNS
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By Mary Ann Anderson From Tribune News Service

The late afternoon light is fading fast, and with the dust kicked up by the Land Rover catching the low rays of the sun, the terrain of trees, rocks and acacia-flecked hills of the Singita Grumeti Game Reserve seemed cloaked in gold. Maybe that’s why I missed seeing a pride of lions, more than a dozen strong, lethargically lounging in the grass in the pitiful shade of an umbrella tree, their tawny coats blending in perfectly with the ocherous landscape.