Best East Africa Wilderness Lodges: Value, Service & Sustainability

Explore Stacy Readal's favorite East Africa properties in prime wilderness areas.

Experience delicious food, excellent service, and a commitment to environmental preservation.

Lake Natron Camp: Lake Natron, Tanzania
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Lake Natron Camp: Lake Natron, Tanzania

Way deep down into the lowest depths of the Great Rift Valley, near Ol Donyo Lengai volcano, there’s a remote camp that is edged by natural plunge pools. Within only short walk, a guest can find rare, well-preserved human footprints left in the mud between 5,000 and 19,000 years ago. No other site in Africa has as many ancient fossilized Homo sapiens footprints. Lake Natron Camp is rustic – which makes sense – it doesn’t look like anything other than nature should be there at all.

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Mysigio Camp: Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
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Mysigio Camp: Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania

The ancient traditions of the Mysigio Maasai tribe continue to flourish in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area. And one luxury highland lodge provides a way for outsiders to gently immerse themselves into this community’s way of life.

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