NGORONGORO WILDLIFE LODGE
Location: On the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
Accommodations: 75 rooms
Game Viewing & Activities: Game drives in the Ngorongoro Crater

Perched on the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater at 7,500 ft. above sea level (with a 2,00 ft. sheer drop down to the crater floor), the Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge affords unsurpassed views over the crater's great bowl.

Its 75 rooms are centrally heated, and the lounge features a fireplace and panoramic windows which give on to a terrace serving as an observation deck for the crater below.

The lodge is a 3-hour drive from Arusha, and 90 minutes from Lake Manyara.

Listed as a World Heritage site, Ngorongoro is the world's largest unbroken caldera, with walls rising 2000 ft. straight up from the crater floor. Often described as the world's eighth wonder, Ngorongoro offers the opportunity of viewing an amazing variety of wild animal life in a concentrated area.

With its unforgettable blue-tinted slopes, swampy grassland, lakes, rivers, woodlands and hills, Ngorongoro supports such an amazing variety of animal life, it's as if Noah's Ark foundered here.

This veritable Garden of Eden is home to ostrich, wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, long-eared foxes, jackal, hyena, lion, cheetah and the very rare black rhino...in all, some 30,000 animals inhabit the crater.