Ndarakwai Ranch: A Day trip to Ndarakwai Ranch

A confidential booking Ndarakwai Camp in the Kilimanjaro region faces a profoundly challenging and terrible destiny. The First World War occurred in the hills of this region, severely impacting the animals; so, even now, one may observe the remnants of the trenches from that era when traversing the park. Following Tanganyika’s independence in 1961, Ndarakwai transformed into an area characterised by grazing, poaching, and deforestation, which decimated the populations of elephants and other wildlife. Due to the coercion of the local tribes, they were compelled to vacate these territories.

The 11,000-acre tract, which faced the prospect of becoming a wasteland, was preserved solely due to the efforts of Peter Jones, who acquired the site for a private reserve in 1995. Annually, due to the protection and stewardship of Reserve personnel, numbers of elephants, zebras, eland, giraffes, wildebeests, buffalo, kudu, and the uncommon gerenuk have begun to flourish. Since December 2010, lions and cheetahs can be encountered here. Currently, Ndarakwai Lodge encompasses a habitat for more than 70 species of mammals and 300 species of birds.