Game drives to the Crater, Lake Eyasi and Manyara
Guide Price: From: $305 To: $475
Ngorongoro Farmhouse is in Ololdukan, about 4kms from the Ngorongoro Conservation area and located with great views of Oldeani. This is a good option as a place to base yourself to visit the Ngorongoro Crater if you dont like the idea of the very large, impersonal or excruciatingly expensive lodges on the Crater Rim itself. To get to the Crater Rim takes about 40 minutes and you should allow a further 40 or so to get to the Crater floor. This is a working farm with lots of pigs, free range chickens, ducks, rabbits, lambs and cows. Fruit and vegetables are grown and apart from the fish imported from the coast, it aims to be pretty much self sufficient. Alongside being a working farm , this is also a coffee plantation, so your coffee really is freshly roasted. There are essentially 3 camps made up of 13 private cottages all scattered amoungst the coffee plantation - these are all private and are extremely large and light and they have vaulted ceilings which makes them feel even more spacious. Decorated in an old colonial style, using local materials, they're comfortable and clean and understated. They all have their own bathrooms, which have showers and baths - the latter being huge and as a consequence they do tend to take a while to fill up...and the hot water is plentiful but not always available for everyone to have baths and not showers... While Ngorongoro Farm House probably isnt up to the standards of the likes of Plantation Lodge, neither is it as expensive. This is a good place to look at if you're trying to keep costs down and is a good option for families, just do be aware that if all the cottages are full, there can be quite a crowd here.
From: 305 To: 475
Game drives to the Crater, Lake Eyasi and Manyara
Karatu is an area of fertile coffee and arable farms on the south eastern slopes of the Ngorongoro Crater. The area sits at about 7500 ft above sea level, often with it's head in the clouds, and feels lush, green and in stark contrast to the dry floor of the Rift Valley a short distance to the east. The town of Karatu itself lies on the Ngorongoro - Manyara road, but most of the small lodges that we'd recommend in this area are set in the midst of farms quite some distance from the town itself. We'd often recommend one of the lodges in Karatu, over and above the Crater Rim, as a place from which to visit the Ngorongoro Crater. The downside to this is clear - you won't be waking up to look down into the Crater from your bedroom window. However, there are plenty of upsides to staying in Karatu if sacrificing crater views isn't a deal-breaker for you. Read more?
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