{"title":"Ngorongoro","description":"Properties in Ngorongoro","products":[{"product_id":"lemala-ngorongoro-tented-camp","title":"Lemala Ngorongoro Tented Camp","description":"\u003cp\u003eLemala Ngorongoro sits in acacia woodland on the eastern rim of Ngorongoro Crater, ten tents positioned apart from each other for privacy. The camp's practical advantage is its access road. Most lodges use the Seneto road on the western rim, which is the busier route. Lemala uses the quieter eastern road, and game drives can leave at 6:15am, putting you on the crater floor within ten to fifteen minutes — useful when wildlife is most active at first light and photographers need the early conditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tents each hold two double beds with a separate dressing area, en-suite shower and flush toilet. Nights on the crater rim are cold, and each tent is equipped with heavy duvets, hot water bottles and a gas heater. One tent is configured as two bedrooms for families or groups travelling together; triple arrangements are available on request. Each tent has a verandah. Solar power runs the camp around the clock, with a generator as backup.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mess tent serves as dining room, lounge and bar together, furnished with old-wood cabinets, sofas, rugs and bookshelves. Evenings typically end around the campfire before dinner. Guided walks through the woodland and along the rim are led by NCAA rangers and Maasai guides.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe nearest airstrip is Manyara, a two-hour drive away.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wetu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43532796461115,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/6776\/2747\/files\/15349atm46382jpg_7f3e1875-4152-4ff1-8e55-f0071f1e7161.webp?v=1779351708"},{"product_id":"elewana-the-manor-at-ngorongoro","title":"Elewana The Manor at Ngorongoro","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Manor at Ngorongoro sits on a 1,500-acre working coffee estate in northern Tanzania, directly beside the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. The main building is a large colonial mansion; the land around it produces coffee. It works well as a base for the Ngorongoro Crater and for Lake Manyara National Park, both within range for a full day's game drive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe property has eighteen cottage suites, each entered through a private door and opening onto a personal sun terrace. Bathrooms are fitted with rain showers; rooms carry Wi-Fi and facilities for making hot drinks. The main house holds the shared dining and sitting areas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eActivities split between the estate and the conservation area. On the estate, guests can ride horses along the rows of coffee plants. Inside the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, the property organises game drives down onto the crater floor — a single enclosed caldera where lion, elephant, black rhino, wildebeest and zebra share a relatively small area of grassland and forest. Lunch on the crater floor is offered as a separate excursion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArusha is the nearest city and the main arrival point for the northern Tanzania safari circuit, making the manor straightforward to reach at the start or end of a longer journey.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wetu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43534674395195,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/6776\/2747\/files\/20466nielsvangijnmanor6r1a1550jpg_9467ec43-a408-4a87-8b4c-1023b5b4270a.webp?v=1779386318"},{"product_id":"ngorongoro-serena-safari-lodge","title":"Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe lodge sits on the rim of Ngorongoro Crater at around 2,300 metres, looking down into one of the largest intact volcanic calderas in the world. The buildings are constructed from the local boulder stone and covered in indigenous creepers, connected by timber walkways between the trees. Inside, the walls carry painted cave-art imagery alongside Maasai iron spears and beadwork; the design reads as a deliberate reference to the archaeology and the communities of the conservation area.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeventy-five rooms are spread along the rim — standard twins, doubles and triples, plus the Kimba Suite, which has a king bed, walk-in mosquito net, separate sitting room with a stocked minibar, and a stone balcony with an open view of the crater below. Every room has its own stone-enclosed balcony.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe crater floor holds more than twenty-five thousand animals, including the black rhinoceros. You reach it by descending a steep winding road; game drives there are run at an additional cost, and the lodge can arrange a bush breakfast or picnic lunch on the floor for groups making a full day of the descent. Two guided walks run from the lodge itself — a ninety-minute nature walk along the rim with a resident naturalist, and a two-hour highland hike escorted by an armed ranger through grassland and montane forest, where Maasai cattlemen also graze their herds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDay trips to Olduvai Gorge and to Empakaai Crater — a six-kilometre-wide caldera containing a soda lake used by flamingos as a breeding site — run as off-site excursions at an additional cost. The main restaurant has a stone fireplace and serves local and international food; a summer bush dinner takes place on the crater rim at sunset.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wetu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43807259492411,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/6776\/2747\/files\/13954serenangorongoro-188jpg_b61bfe3d-d899-480c-b951-cf2adf21ba75.webp?v=1784337254"}],"url":"https:\/\/plekify.com\/en-us\/collections\/place-ngorongoro.oembed","provider":"Plekify","version":"1.0","type":"link"}