Luxury meets wild in the Mara

The holiday season is upon us and rather than go to the French Riviera or Dubai as preferred by the wealthy, it is time to dine in the bush amid the sounds of big game and stargaze late into the night in Kenya.

There is something brazenly luxurious about sleeping in a bush, in a safari tent or a lodge. BDLife has picked a few bush escapes where you forget the luxuries of the city but still find them in the wild.