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Africa / Tanzania
Serengeti Sopa Lodge is a large mid-price lodge, it is conveniently located to for the areas around the Seronera River. The hotel has large spacious rooms with balconies from which to view the plains below. Meals are served buffet style and it has a swimming pool. Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge is a comfortable well run lodge with 66 rooms. It is perched on top of the Kyabatero Hill with great views through the trees. The rooms are on two levels with thatched roofs. The overall appearance is that of several beehives. Ndutu Safari Lodge located on the edge of the lake just outside the Park boundary is in a fantastic location to view the migration on the short grass plains. It consists of 32 large stone built cottages. Ndutu has an open bar and restaurant overlooking the lake. Ndutu is a very special place any time of the year and is a great stopping point en-route to or from the highlands if you have been up in the northern reaches of the Serengeti. Mbalageti Safari Lodge has both tented chalets and lodge rooms. Mbalageti has an exceptional outlook over the plains, it is in a truely amazing location. The public areas include large bar and loft space for reading. The swimming pool has a 360-degree view of the Serengeti. Mbuzi Mawe Tented Camp is surrounded by kopjes (granite outcrops) and offers fantastic views out over the Serengeti plains. The camp consists of 16 comfortable tents, a central lounge and a dining tent. Grumeti River Camp is a small tented camp with 10 attractively designed tents located on the banks of the Grumeti River. The food and service here are excellent. Migration Camp is a comfortable tented camp in the northern part of Serengeti some 25 kilometres or so from Lobo airstrip. It is a great place to base yourself when the migration is working its way northwards. The tents are spacious with large en-suite facilities. Our suggestion would be to spend an extra day here just to appreciate the location and facilities rather than arriving late and heading off for a game-drive early next morning.
Olduvai Gorge
This is the site of some of the most important fossil hominid finds of all time by Mary and Louis Leakey such as Nutcracker Man or Australopithecus boisei who lived 1.75 million years ago. There is a small informative museum located at the visitor centre where you can view ancient fossils. The gorge is a treasure trove of archaeological sites filled with fossils; settlement remains and stone artefacts all evidence that this was once 'The Cradle of Mankind'.
Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge accommodates up to 190 guests, it is not a luxury lodge but is a good wellpriced property. It is the only lodge on the eastern rim of the crater and it effectively has its own access road to the crater floor. Meals are served buffet style but don't expect a culinary extravaganza - the view however is stunning! Ngorongoro Serena Lodge is located on the Craters southern rim. The stone building is covered by plant and ivy, which gives a slightly austere appearance but from the Crater floor it is hardly noticeable. There are seventy-
Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area
Often referred to as the 'eighth wonder of the world', the Ngorongoro Crater provides one of the finest wildlife opportunities that Africa can offer. Covering 260 square kilometres the balance of predator and prey within the Crater is so precise that animals seldom leave, and it possibly contains the largest permanent concentration of wildlife in Africa, with an estimate of 30,000 large animals. The game-viewing is good all year-round. The expansive floor is predominantly grassland, which provides for excellent game-viewing. There are two swamps fed by streams (a favourite for Hippo, Elephant and reedbuck, among other species) two forests, and a huge soda lake that attracts thousands of flamingos and other water birds. The Crater walls are also lightly forested. There is no accommodation on the Ngorongoro Crater floor itself so every day a restricted number of visitors are given permits to descend the 650 metre walls of this caldera (a collapsed cone of a volcano) for half a day. Despite the restrictions on numbers, the popularity of the Crater and its location on the classic northern circuit mean that you will not have a solitary experience here. However, the size of the Crater is such that it is possible to escape the crowds whilst on the Crater floor, and the guaranteed sightings and benefits of wildlife-viewing here far outweigh the negatives.
five spacious rooms. Ngorongoro Crater Lodge is one Africas most famous lodges and it isnt cheap. The lodge is divided into three separate camps, North, South, and Tree Camp (which only has six suites). All the rooms are lavishly decorated with Victorian baths and oak panels. If you can afford it, Crater Lodge should be on your wish list of places to stay. Ngorongoro Farm House is precisely that, a farm house. Once a large coffee plantation it has undergone major refurbishment by its Tanzanian owner. It is a special place to stay offering superb accommodation in hand-made red brick bungalows. Their organic working farm supplies the lodge with fresh free-range eggs and vegetables, and of course the meals are delicious. Gibbs Farm is still a working coffee farm and one of the oldest in this region and has spacious manicured gardens. Great pride is taken in the food here which is plentiful and excellent. Walks and hikes can be arranged either through the gardens or further a field to the many trails.
Migration Camp
Ngorongoro Farm House
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