Country Lodge

Top choice in Northern Tanzania


Signposted off the main road just north of Karatu, this excellent place offers 22 simple but quiet and tidy rooms in 11 cottages arrayed around 2 hectares of greenery. The cottages have verandahs, and there's a restaurant serving good food made from locally sourced ingredients.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Northern Tanzania attractions

1. Ngorongoro Crater

12.11 MILES

At 19km wide and with a surface of 264 sq km, Ngorongoro is one of the largest unbroken calderas in the world that isn’t a lake. Its steep walls soar 400m…

2. Lake Manyara National Park

13.83 MILES

Lake Manyara National Park is one of Tanzania’s smaller and most underrated parks. While it may lack the size and variety of other northern-circuit…

3. Lake Manyara Treetop Walkway

14.11 MILES

Enjoy a guided bird's-eye view of Manyara on Tanzania's first treetop walkway (370m). It begins at ground level and climbs gently into the canopy,…

4. Ngorongoro Conservation Area

19.85 MILES

This astounding conservation area and Unesco World Heritage Site encompasses the Ngorongoro Crater, Oldupai Gorge and much of the Crater Highlands. It can…

5. Ghorofani Market

21.62 MILES

Ghorofani, Lake Eyasi's main village, lies a few kilometres from the lake’s northeastern end. Its mnada (market), held on the fifth day of the month,…

6. Olmoti Crater

21.83 MILES

Though lacking the drama of Ngorongoro and Empakaai, Olmoti Crater, 13km north of the Lemala ascent-descent road, is worth visiting on your way north into…

7. Manyara Ranch Conservancy

29.88 MILES

Occupying an important wildlife-dispersal area northwest of Tarangire National Park, the privately run, 140-sq-km Manyara Ranch Conservancy is a critical…