Getting around · Ngorongoro
Ultimate luxuryandBeyond Ngorongoro Crater Lodge
Crater-rim lodge · 30 suites across three camps · Ngorongoro, Tanzania
- Tier
- Ultimate luxury
- Style
- Crater-rim lodge
- Size
- 30 suites across three camps
- Region
- Ngorongoro
- Nearest airstrip
- Ngorongoro
The crater's most theatrical address — stilted mud-and-thatch suites whose floor-to-ceiling windows look straight down into the caldera, each with its own butler, run as three small independent camps rather than one large lodge.
andBeyond Ngorongoro Crater Lodge sits on the southern rim, divided into a North and a South Camp of twelve suites each and a six-suite Tree Camp set closer to the edge in woodland, so each operates at the scale of a small camp. The exterior is handcrafted mud and thatch; inside, chandeliers, antiques and deep baths make the contrast that earned the lodge its 'Maasai meets Versailles' reputation. A butler looks after each suite, and the road down is short enough to put you on the crater floor at first light.
Flying in
The nearest airstrip is Ngorongoro. See the real fly-in routes and how the rest of the region connects on the Getting Around map.
Open the fly-in mapEach Wildtouch safari is quoted individually — rates depend on your dates, the camps you choose and how it all links together. Wildtouch prices the whole journey, not a per-night sticker.
Safaris that visit Ngorongoro
andBeyond Ngorongoro Crater Lodge sits in Ngorongoro. These are the routes we run through it — each one rebuilt around you, with your choice of camp.
Other places to stay nearby
Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge
Built from local river stone and timber and clad in living creepers, it blends almost invisibly into the crater rim while every room enjoys an uninterrupted view down into the caldera.
LuxuryLemala Ngorongoro Tented Camp
Set in an ancient acacia forest right by the crater's edge, it sits beside the quiet Lemala access route, giving guests one of the shortest and earliest descents to the crater floor of any property.
Ultimate luxuryThe Highlands by Asilia
Strikingly modern perspex-and-canvas geodesic domes set high on the forested slopes of the Olmoti volcano, well above the crater rim, delivering a contemporary design statement found nowhere else in the highlands.
Ultimate luxuryEntamanu Ngorongoro
A small Nomad camp high on the crater's quieter north-western rim — the one place you can watch the sun come up over the Ngorongoro caldera and go down over the Serengeti plains.
ClassicNgorongoro Sopa Lodge
The crater's eastern-rim lodge, up on Lemala Hill at about 2,375 metres beside the quieter of the two descent roads — and the only one on the rim with a pool.
ComfortNgorongoro Rhino Lodge
A straightforward, good-value lodge inside the Conservation Area itself, set back a couple of hundred metres from the rim in montane forest and run with the Maasai Pastoral Council so the income stays local.
LuxuryGibb's Farm
A working coffee farm dating from 1929 on the forested slopes above Karatu, set midway along the run from Lake Manyara up to the crater — closer to a country retreat than a safari base, and largely self-supplied from its own kitchen garden.
Ultimate luxuryElewana The Manor at Ngorongoro
An Afro-European country estate in the Cape Dutch style, set in a 1,500-acre working Arabica coffee farm beside the Conservation Area — closer to an up-country manor house than a safari lodge, with riding on the estate.
ClassicAcacia Farm Lodge
A country lodge on a working mixed farm high on the Rift escarpment at Karatu, around five kilometres from the Conservation Area boundary, with long views across the farmland to the Ngorongoro forest.
ClassicNgorongoro Farm House
Fifty-one ochre stone cottages scattered across a large working farm on the Karatu side — an easy, unhurried base for a crater day that skips the cold of the rim.