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Accommodation
While our circular guest suites with their high, conical roofs fan out to either side of the public areas, it is worth mentioning a word of caution here. Because the lodge is not fenced in any way, wild animals are at liberty to come and go as they please and transits to your room and back might be – but rarely – delayed by an elephant or two. This is the only reason our guards will insist on taking you to and fro at night.
Once inside the coolness of your room, you will be delighted at its space and airiness, and also the views from its sheltered veranda. With its mini-bar, two double beds and an extremely spacious, well appointed bathroom, you can only wish that you were staying an extra night.
75 spacious rooms, all with a private lounge on entering with a mini bar. Each room has 2 queen size beds with a mosquito net around them.
4 of these rooms are suitable for the physically challenged.
4 interconnecting rooms suitable for families.
Our Facilities
✓ Adjoining Rooms ✓ Hairdryers ✓ Swimming Pool
✓ Baby Sitting ✓ Laundry ✓ Telephone at Reception
✓ Bird Watching ✓ Mosquito Nets ✓ Traditional Dances
✓ Board games ✓ Nature Walks ✓ Turndown Service
✓ Children’s Menu ✓ Outdoor Dining ✓ Weddings
✓ Conferences ✓ Special Diets ✓ Wheelchair Accessible Rooms
✓ Gift Shop ✓ Sundowners ✓ WiFi in Public Areas
Tarangire Sopa Lodge
Tarangire National Park
This 2,850 km2 park, the 6th largest in Tanzania and possibly its best well kept secret, was established in a naturally dry area in the northern part of the country in 1970, and was the fifth conservation area to be declared after the country’s independence in 1961. Mostly made up of savannah grassland, Tarangire also boasts rolling hills, rocky outcrops, extensive swamps and Acacia woodlands as well as an unusually large number of huge Baobab trees.
Because of the permanent, life-giving water flowing through the park by way of the Tarangire River, it has one of the highest concentrations of wildlife between the long rains in April and May, and the short rains in November. It is also a bird watcher’s paradise with its more than 550 species of birds, and the swamps support the largest number of breeding bird species to be found anywhere in the world.
While there is also an abundance of all forms of wildlife throughout the year, Tarangire is especially renowned for its large herds of elephants, tree climbing lions, huge pythons, its herds of oryx which are regularly seen, and also for its rock paintings which were done by early man tens of thousands of years ago.
It is also one of the few National Parks in East Africa where you can get high in a hot air balloon, and where nature walks and night game drives are allowed in the conservancies which border the park.
