The 7 most luxurious safari lodges in Africa

Lion Sands The Lion Sands features three different tree houses to stay in.

We recently published a list of the 30 best hotels in the world, and many of the properties that made the list are are luxury safari lodges in Africa.

Considering that an African safari is a once-in-a-lifetime trip during which most people spare no expense, it should come as no surprise that these resorts are some of the world's most incredible.

To create this list, we aggregated five notable hotel rankings made by elite travel publications and websites: Travel + Leisure's World's Best Hotels, Conde Nast Traveler's Top 100 Hotels and Resorts, TripAdvisor's Top 25 Hotels in the World, Fodor's 100 Hotel Awards, andJetsetter's Best of the Best Awards. Read the full methodology here.

Check out the world's seven most luxurious safari lodges.