Located on the very edge of Lake Natron, this 10 tent luxury tented camp is perfectly situated for amazing adventures! Located within walking distance are the hominid footprints and Lake Natron where over 1 million flamingoes come to breed, it is also ideally situated as an ending point for our Empakai to Natron Trek, The Great Rifty Valley Trek, as well as a number of other activities and expeditions combined with northern Tanzania safaris.

Lake Natron, waterfalls, Great Rift Valley, birdwatching, Maasai, culture, local village, Hominid footprints, natural pool, all inclusive, Mount Lengai, being in a remote, off the beaten track area, spectacular dramatic views from every angle.

If you stay at Lake Natron for 3 nights, you get to climb Mount Lengai for FREE!

Lengai, our intense climb and active volcano, dominate the ecology of this region. Natrocarbonatite lava is found everywhere and sand and ash, laden with sodium and potassium carbonates, finds it way in to everything!

Easily combined with Northern Tanzania Safaris.

Right in front of camp there is a natural spring. It contains quite a lot of soda (carbonates from Lengai) and so feels quite soapy to the touch. This spring is a real haven of life and is fresh enough to allow lots of different forms of life to thrive – we even filter and drink water from this source! Grasses and sedges (Cyperus Laevigatus) also thrive and in turn provide sustenance to a wide range of invertebrates and larger animals too.

With all this life we have larger reptiles such as monitor lizards and pythons and a potentially endemic sub species of the black necked red spitting cobra (Naja pallida).

In the evenings we often here our local hyaena whooping and very rarely a lion wanders over from Gelai – it’s been a while long time though..

The bird life is prolific, and once the palearctic migrants comes pouring down the rift it is the place to be. The lake, famous for the flamingo populations, is where blue green algae thrives and provides food for the flamingo as well as other organisms. That amazing red you can see in the lake is the red pigment in the algae. There are wide open plains behind camp too – lots of different grass mice and rodents to keep soaring raptors well fed and we’ve seen wild cat, serval and even a golden cat in the nearby acacia and Salvadora persica woodlands. Also zebra and wildebeest rome the camp and come close to the tents. You may see  our neighbours, the giraffe, whilst on the way to the local village.