Lemala Osonjoi

Lemala Osonjoi Ngorongoro Crater The largest intact volcanic caldera on earth–a perfect, unfilled, immense bowl about 10 to 12 miles in diameter—the Ngorongoro Crater has been for millennia a natural sanctuary for Africa’s so called charismatic megafauna. Seeing the Big Five is not a game of chance here, but a near certainty. Its density of wildlife, however, and its startling beauty, also makes it a visitor magnet. Meaning: You can rarely have the sights to yourself. This 20-suite lodge (including two two-bedroom suites, ideal for families) was designed to give you just that—at least some time alone with the landscape and the animals. It sits on the quieter, eastern rim of the crater. If you leave the lodge by 6AM, you’ll be on the crater floor 15 minutes later—up to one hour ahead of vehicles using the busier, more distant western descent. All requisite luxuries await back at the lodge, but the greatest luxury of all may be that you can just sneak right back down again near sunset—the other critical game-viewing window.

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