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Discover the breathtaking Hatari Lodge and Shu'mata Camp nestled in Tanzania The impressive landscape between the two mountains – Mt. Meru and Mt. Mt. Meru und Mt.
This page keeps you up to date with news, facts and infos about both our properties, Hatari Lodge and Shu'mata Camp, from the African Embassy Safaris and projects concerning MomellaFoundation. Hatari! - this is where the eponymous famous Hollywood Movie was shot in the 1960's by Howard Hawks with John Wayne and Hardy Kruger as the main actors. Kilimanjaro nowadays hosts our two unique destinations
Why do experiences with .travel feel so personal?
Perhaps because everything begins with the land.
We don’t believe in creating experiences around wildlife. We believe in protecting the ecosystems that allow wildlife to thrive.
We don’t create encounters. We wait for them.
We don’t import a dining experience. We grow it. Through .ltd , much of what reaches the table is rooted in the very landscapes our guests come to explore.
And we don’t rush people through a checklist of sightings.
Northern Tanzania rewards those who slow down.
Here, beneath Mount Meru and in the shadow of Kilimanjaro, there is still space to connect with the people, the wildlife and the rhythm of the land itself.
Perhaps that’s what people feel when they arrive.
Not a safari.
A sense of belonging 🫶
For a little while, at least.
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Our camp’s name comes from the Maa word for heaven.
‘Shu’mata’
And on evenings like this, there isn’t much more to say.
The landscape turning gold, the sky softening, and stillness… stillness is something that our modern world often misses.
And that is what we’re here to protect.
When nature gives you this back, it feels like a blessing.
You probably won’t have heard of this place in Tanzania.
Shu’mata sits in the Enduimet region, beneath Kilimanjaro, in open elephant country. It is far from the safari routes most people know by name, and that is part of why moments here feel different.
Breakfast is not designed around spectacle. Some mornings are simply coffee, dust, light across the plains and the quiet beginning of another day.
And sometimes, Kumi Nasaba appears.
Nothing about this was staged. He was not called in. No one moved towards him for the shot. The moment was allowed to remain what it was: an elephant moving through his own landscape while we stayed still enough to respect it.
That is what makes Shu’mata different.
The wild is not arranged around the guest experience. The guest experience is shaped around the wild.
For our guests, it may be a once-in-a-lifetime breakfast.
For Kumi Nasaba, it was simply his morning 🫶
All roads less travelled, lead to Hatari.
27/05/2026
Guides-eye-view from Shu’mata camp.
There is so much to see. And in the hands of - you are safe in the knowledge that he doesn’t miss a thing.
If birds are your thing, then he really is your man.
Forever telling us about the incredible encounters with butterflies and bird life in Arusha national park 🤩
If you’ve visited Hatari Lodge or Shu’mata camp, what were you most excited to see or experience?
The elephants are coming back to the meadow at Hatari Lodge.
They are returning because the ecosystem is healing.
At Hatari, the wildlife moves freely through the lodge because this land is still alive. Our encounters are never staged. They happen because we work every single day not only to protect this environment — but to IMPROVE it.
To restore it.
And slowly, beautifully, nature responds.
Seeing elephants walk through the meadow more frequently now is enough to stop us in our tracks. Sometimes enough to make us emotional.
Because moments like this remind us that conservation is REAL.
This is what hope looks like.
And that means everything to us.
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POV: you wake up to this view in Tanzania.
This is Hatari Lodge — set on the edge of Arusha National Park, with Mount Meru rising behind the landscape and wildlife moving through the plains around you.
Not the typical safari route.
Just wide views, quiet mornings, giraffe near the lodge, forest, lakes, mountain air and a slower way to experience Northern Tanzania.
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All roads less travelled, lead to Hatari.
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21/05/2026
Sometimes safaris are best travelled by a canoe 👌
At Momella Lakes, the wild is slower, quieter and closer to the water.
A different way to safari.
A different way to see Arusha National Park.
Did you spot the python?
20/05/2026
Shu’mata means heaven.
And once you arrive, it is easy to understand why.
Set beneath Kilimanjaro, Shu’mata Camp offers something increasingly rare: space, silence and safari far from the usual crowds.
With just 7 safari tents, the camp sits in the Greater Kilimanjaro–Amboseli ecosystem — elephant country, open plains, giraffe, ostrich, wide skies and landscapes that still feel beautifully untouched.
But what makes Shu’mata different is not only where it is.
It is how you experience it.
Quiet game drives.
Maasai naturalist walks.
Sundowners above the plains.
Locally shaped interiors.
Food connected to Wondergarden.
A slower, deeper relationship with the land.
This is not safari as spectacle.
It is safari with space, purpose and a sense of place.
All roads less travelled, lead to Hatari.
We spend so much of life looking ahead…
The next place.
The next plan.
The next thing to reach.
But being in the wild asks something different of us.
It reminds us to look around.
To notice the movement in the canopy.
The birds in the trees.
The life in the grass.
The colobus monkeys moving quietly above you in Arusha National Park.
These black-and-white colobus monkeys are among the park’s most beautiful forest residents — elegant, tree-dwelling and deeply connected to healthy forest habitat.
At Hatari, safari is not rushed. It is felt in layers.
Above you.
Around you.
Under your feet.
Sometimes the most unforgettable moments begin when you simply slow down and look up.
All roads less travelled, lead to Hatari.
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