The Manor at Ngorongoro sits on the Shangri-La Coffee Estate in the hills above the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, its main house and eighteen cottage suites built in the Cape Dutch style of the region’s early European settlers. It pairs the working coffee-plantation setting with direct access to the Ngorongoro Crater and Lake Manyara National Park, both reachable on a day’s game drive.
Eighteen Manor Cottage Suites, each with its own private entrance and terrace, a double open-fronted log fireplace and a Victorian claw-footed bath alongside a rainfall shower, plus the two-storey Stable Cottage, which adds a children’s twin room and playroom for families.
Dinner is served in the Manor House’s restaurant in front of open log fires, backed by a full wine list, while lunch can be taken on the terrace, in the cottage, or packed for a picnic on the crater floor.
Full-day game drives into the Ngorongoro Crater with a picnic lunch on the crater floor, game drives in Lake Manyara National Park, horse riding around the coffee estate, sundowner cocktails in the gardens, and spa treatments.
The Ngorongoro Crater’s enclosed caldera concentrates an unusually dense resident population of lion, elephant, buffalo, hippo and both black and white rhino within a compact area, while Lake Manyara National Park nearby adds hippo, flamingo and forest-dwelling primates to the itinerary.
Leaving early enough to catch the mist lifting off the crater floor gives a very different light to the harsher midday game drive, and the estate’s coffee rows make for a quieter, textural counterpoint back at the lodge.
The Manor at Ngorongoro supports the Land & Life Foundation, Elewana’s charitable arm, which funds schools, clinics and conservation initiatives in the communities around its Kenya and Tanzania properties, including those bordering the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
To arrange a tailor-made journey to this lodge, speak with your Kipekee Journey Lead.
