The world's largest intact volcanic caldera — a 260 km² crater floor holding roughly 25,000 large animals, plus Olduvai Gorge and Maasai grazing lands. A UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Things To Do
The core of every safari — tracking wildlife across the parks in a pop-top or open-sided…
Timing your safari around the movement of 1.5 million wildebeest and 250,000 zebra through the Serengeti…
Tanzania has over 1,100 recorded bird species — from the flamingos of the Rift Valley lakes…
Time with the communities who live alongside the parks — Maasai and Datoga pastoralists, Hadzabe hunter-gatherers…
Safaris built around the light and the shot — later starts turned into longer stays at…
Where to Stay
Safari Lodge
Southern crater rim · Ngorongoro Conservation Area
&Beyond's flagship — three small camps of ornate, chandelier-and-mud stilted suites right on the crater rim, widely called one of the most…
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Safari Lodge
South-western crater rim · Ngorongoro Conservation Area
A stone-built four-star lodge low along the crater rim, its rooms angled for the view down into the caldera — a reliable…
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Safari Lodge
Forest, near the crater rim · Ngorongoro Conservation Area
A simple, community-linked lodge set back in the forest a few kilometres from the rim — no crater view, but noticeably better…
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Campsite
Crater rim · Ngorongoro Conservation Area
The main public campsite on the Ngorongoro rim — a dramatic, cold, exposed spot on the edge of the crater, with shared…
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