Crossing the Rift Valley and climbing the steppe onto the green and rolling hills south of the, there lies a truly undeniable surprise that will be a home-away-from-home.

OLD WORLD CHARM, NEW WORLD HOSPITALITY

Every detail of The Manor has been designed with its guests’ comfort in mind. Each of the cottages has been carefully positioned to maximize the views of the adjacent verdant hills while maintaining the intimacy and privacy of this old-world Manor home.

NGORONGORO – THE DRAMA AWAITS

The Manor at Ngorongoro provides the perfect environment to relax and enjoy its gardens’ outstanding natural beauty and coffee-bush-laden hills. However, the drama that is Africa is but a short distance away.

Ngorongoro Crater is famed as the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’ and is a ‘must see’ on anyone’s itinerary. With its 18-kilometer-wide crater floor, this extinct volcano is home to an abundant and unique ecosystem encompassing almost all of the wildlife you wish to see in Africa. This spectacular setting is a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ opportunity to experience the rawness and beauty of Africa’s natural flora and fauna.

THE MANOR – A HOME AWAY FROM HOME

And what better way to enjoy the Crater than knowing that at the Crater, the Craterater will return to enjoy an incomparable dinner in The Manor’s restaurant followed by a deeply restful night in a cottage designed solely with your comfort in mind?

Location

Nestled adjacent to the breathtaking Ngorongoro Conservation Area within the 1,500-acre Shangri-La estate, The Manor at Ngorongoro is a one-of-a-kind experience. African hospitality fused with world-European architecture and décor embraces you grandiosely, surrounded by the natural splendor of the Tanzanian highlands and the world heritage site, The Ngorongoro Crater.

Getting to The Manor can be done by driving directly from Kilimanjaro or Arusha or flying from Arusha to Manyara airstrip.

Transfer time to/from Manyara Airstrip: 40 minutes drive (approx)
Transfer time to/from Arusha Coffee Lodge by car: 2 hours 20 minutes (approx)
Transfer time to/from Arusha Town Center by car: 2 hours 45 minutes (approx)
Flight time to/from Manyara airstrip/to Arusha airstrip: 25 minutes (approx)
Transfer time to/from Kilimanjaro airport: 3 hours 45 minutes (approx)

Ngorongoro Crater

Ngorongoro Conservation Area includes its eponymous famous Crater, Olduvai Gorge, and vast expanses. The craterghland plains, scrub bushes, and forests cover approximately 8300 square kilometers. In a protected area, only indigenous tribes, such as the Masaai, are allowed to live within its borders. Lake Ndutu and Masek, both alkaline soda lakes, are home to affluent game populations and a se and volcanoes, making the Conservation Area a unique and beautiful landscape. Of course, the Crater, a collapCraterlcano called a caldera, is the main attraction.

The game viewing is incredible, and the topography and views of the surrounding Crater Highlands are out of this world.

THE CRATER

The Ngorongoro Crater is often called ‘Africa’s Eden’ and the’ 8th Natural Wonder of the World,’ a visit to the Crater is a main drawcard for tourists to Tanzania and a definite world-class attraction. Within the crater rim, large herds of zebra and wildebeest graze nearby while sleeping lions laze in the sun. At dawn, the endangered black rhino returns to the thick cover of the crater forests after grazing on dew-laden grass in the morning mist. Just outside the Crater’s ridge, tall Maasai herd their cCrater’sd goats over green pastures through the highland slopes, living alongside the wildlife as they have for centuries.

THE CRADLE OF HUMANITY

This truly magical place is home to Olduvai Gorge, where the Leakeys discovered the hominoid remains of a 1.8 million-year-old skeleton of Australopithecus boisei, one of the distinct links of the human evolutionary chain. In a small canyon just north of the Crater, the Leakeys and their team of intraregional archaeologists ruined at least three distinct hominoid species and came upon a complete series of hominoid footprints estimated to be over 3.7 million years old. Evacuated fossils show that the area is one of the world’s oldest sites of hominoid habitation.

The Ngorongoro Crater and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area are undoubtedly some of the most beautiful parts of Tanzania, steeped in history and teeming with wildlife.

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