Lodge on the Ngorongoro crater rim

Lodges, Tented Camps & Campsites in Tanzania

Where to stay on a Tanzania self-drive, from public campsites for your rooftop tent to crater-rim lodges. Every place listed is used on our own published trips.

We book your nights as part of your quote, or you camp and pay campsite fees with your park fees.

How to sleep

Three Ways to Spend the Night

Style I

Public Campsites

Why it works

The cheapest way to sleep inside the parks: pitch a ground tent or open your rooftop tent. Fees are paid with your park fees.

Style II

Tented Camps

Why it works

Proper beds under canvas, often in the best wildlife areas, with meals included.

Style III

Lodges

Why it works

Solid rooms, restaurants and pools on crater rims and river ridges, for nights when you want comfort.

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Choose an area to see campsites, tented camps and lodges.

Arusha, Moshi & Kilimanjaro
10 places

Where most self-drive trips start and end. Stay a night after your flight, collect the car in the morning and you are in…

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Tarangire
6 places

Lodges and tented camps on the ridges above the Tarangire River, plus camps just outside the park boundary.

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Lake Manyara & Mto wa Mbu
4 places

Mto wa Mbu village sits at the gate of Lake Manyara and is a handy stop between Tarangire and the crater highlands.

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Karatu & Ngorongoro
7 places

Sleep on the crater rim for an early descent, or in Karatu town below for more choice and lower prices.

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Serengeti & Ndutu
24 places

From public campsites to luxury tented camps. Choose the area by season: Ndutu and the south for calving, the centre all year…

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Lake Natron & Lake Eyasi
4 places

Remote lakes off the main circuit: Ol Doinyo Lengai and flamingos at Natron, Hadzabe and Datoga cultures at Eyasi.

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Zanzibar & the coast
2 places

End the road trip on the beach. Fly or take the ferry from Dar es Salaam.

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Uganda & Rwanda (gorilla extensions)
12 places

Lodges used on our combined trips for gorilla and chimpanzee trekking.

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Knowledge Bites

Knowledge bites

Where do you pay public campsite fees in a national park?

Campsite fees are paid together with your park entry fees. See camping fees for public campsites.

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