Ngorongoro Safari & Lodges In The Ngorongoro Crater

A Unesco World Heritage Site, this collapsed volcanic caldera covers an area of 8300 square kilometers and encompasses several different ecosystems, including volcanoes, grasslands, waterfalls and mountain forest and forming its own unique ecosystem. What makes a Ngorogoro safari special is its concentration of animals, at an estimated 30 000 animals inhabit an area of 260 square kilometers.
If your available time is limited but your budget not, the 4-day Ngorongoro Crater Lodge fly-in safari is your optimum choice (the location spectacular, the dcor sublime and the service in line with & Beyond's legendary reputation). Should you be looking for a longer Ngorongoro and Serengeti safari still within the & Beyong group of lodges, we suggest our Best of the Crater and Serengeti luxury safari. Should you be on a looking for a longer duration scheduled safari on a set budget, then Tanzania scheduled safari is for you. Should neither of these two spectrums be what you are looking for, the browse our East Africa tours or Ngorongoro Crater lodges or contact us for a tailor-made proposal.


A handful of renowned lodges in the Ngorongoro Crater are dotted around the crater rim, surely among the most breathtaking and serene locations in Africa. For the less well healed, other accommodation exists within an easy drive of the crater and day trips are possible to the crater floor. Although an Ngorongoro Crater safari holds spectacular vistas and excellent gameviewing, this safari "hot-spot" does get crowded with over two-hundred safari vehicles on the crater floor daily.

We highly recommend his destination and a Ngorongoro crater tour, although caution our clientele that remote safari experiences are better experienced elsewhere in East Africa. An Ngorongoro safari combines excellently with an Serengeti safari, and Safari365 can easily combine a these two destinations as well as others.
Ngorongoro safari is literally "Wildlife Central". Geologists believe that the Ngorongoro volcano (which ultimately formed the Ngorongoro Crater) was originally 1000m higher than Mount Kilimanjaro. The Ngorongoro volcano's eruptions regularly deposited ash to the west of Ngorongoro up until the volcano collapsed around 2-million years ago, cultivating the Serengeti plains (the only habitat that can sustain the birth of half a million wildebeest calves in two months on an annual basis)


The Greater Ngorongoro Conservation Area is also home to one of the most iconic tribes in Africa, the Masai. These nomadic people have maintained their traditional lifestyle whist co-existing with the influx of tourism and welcoming visitors into their homes to subsidize their income. The conservation area has also made for the ideal preservation of fossil remains in the area, and led to the archeological discoveries of early human remains made by Dr Louis Leaky and his wife, Mary, at Olduvai Gorge just to the west of the Ngorongoro highlands.