Hide Safari Camp

The Hide Safari Camp is a safari camp on a private concession within Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. The Hide runs a tree nursery that has replanted more than 1,000 indigenous trees back into Hwange National Park, each one ringed with beehives to stop elephants from pulling it straight back out. Ten tents make up the main camp, overlooking a waterhole frequented with elephant, lion and buffalo. Tom's Little Hide, a three-bedroom cottage, and the Private Hide offer more exclusive options nearby, alongside the Dove's Nest, a sleep-out treehouse built into a leadwood tree. The camp sits on what was once the royal hunting ground of the Ndebele kings, now a private concession on the park's eastern edge.

The Hide was a founding member of both the Conservation and Wildlife Fund, which runs anti-poaching units including one on the camp's own concession, and Friends of Hwange, which keeps the park's boreholes running on solar power. Recycled paper and cardboard get pressed into fire bricks for the evening fires, cutting down on firewood, and The Hide Community Trust teaches local women to build kilns from termite mounds and old car parts, recycling aluminium into beads to sell.