Southern Ngorongoro Under Canvas

Overview

A permanent camp in the south of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, about 50 kilometres southwest of Karatu Town. It includes 20 comfortable luxury tents and 6 cottages with a large dining and reception area, plus bush meals, sundowner cocktails, a fireplace, Maasai barbecue and a multi-cuisine restaurant.

Nestled into the forested highlands on the edge of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Ngorongoro Wild Camp offers intimate access to Tanzania's most celebrated wildlife destination while maintaining a secluded, woodland character distinct from larger developments. Twenty walk-in safari tents are scattered through mature euphorbia and fig woodland, each with a private veranda overlooking the trees where colobus monkeys leap and birdsong fills the air. The intimate scale creates a genuine sense of remoteness despite the crater's proximity, while the central campfire establishes the social heart of camp for evening drinks and dinners prepared with local ingredients. Guided walks through the surrounding forest reveal tracks and signs of wildlife, while twice-daily game drives descend through the crater's steep walls to explore its remarkably dense wildlife populations. The crater's floor supports one of Africa's highest concentrations of large mammals within a self-contained ecosystem, offering encounters with lion, hyena, elephant, and the critically endangered black rhino. Ngorongoro Wild Camp delivers authentic safari immersion in a setting where the natural world feels wonderfully immediate and unchanged.