PRIVATE LODGE & RANCH - KILIMANJARO - NORTH TANZANIA
Siha District, West Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
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Ndarakwai Reservations, Bookings, & Information: Contact Mustansir
Email: bookings@ndarakwai.co.tz
Phone: +255 765 633 088
Ndarakwai Camp: Contact Asheri
Email: camp@ndarakwai.co.tz
Phone: +255 769 086 128
An 11,000 acre success story of land and wildlife rehabilitation, with a luxury tented lodge, practicing the principles of sustainable eco tourism
Ndarakwai Ranch, named by the Maasai after an indigenous species of cedar tree, was farmed and ranched by Europeans when Tanganyika was a German Colony. The ranch saw significant action during WW1 and trenches can still be seen on many hills on the farm. After WW1 Tanganyika became a British Protectorate and was ranched through to Independence in 1961, and well into the 70’s. Tanganyika was re-named Tanzania after the Zanzibar Revolution in 1964. Ndarakwai was one of a number of “West Kili” farms that were nationalized in the mid ‘70’s and allocated to various Government Parastatal organisations. Between then and 1994, unregulated grazing, tree cutting and rampant poaching all but destroyed the fragile grasslands and drove out the elephant and other wildlife populations. The area was fast becoming a waste-land. In 1995, Peter Jones (owner of Tanganyika Film & Safari Outfitters) took on board the commitment to restore the rangeland with the long-term hope that wildlife populations