Lion’s Paw Camp
The property
A misty forest camp on the eastern crater rim inside the park gates, so you’re the first vehicle down into the caldera at dawn.
Tucked into a red-thorn acacia forest on the jagged eastern rim of the Ngorongoro Crater, wrapped in swirling morning mist. Being inside the park gates is the whole advantage: you make the first descent at dawn into the ten-mile caldera and its unmatched density of wildlife, before the day’s vehicles arrive. For the safari purist, hard to beat.
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Where it sits
On the crest of Leala Hill at 7,500 feet on the eastern crater rim, above Lake Magadi. The eastern descent road is a 10-minute drive and faster than the western routes, so you are on the crater floor for the morning hunt while other lodges are still at the gates.
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The rooms
Fifteen safari suites and two two-bedroom family suites, luxury cabins under canvas raised on stilts to tread lightly on the red-thorn acacia forest, with four-poster beds in king or twin and a writing desk.
The country around it
Ngorongoro Conservation Area
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Direct line
Tanzania office
P.O. Box 746, Usa-River, Arusha