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Ngorongoro Conservation Area |
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The
Ngorongoro Crater standing at 2,286
meters above sea level is the largest
unbroken caldera in the world.
Surrounded by very steep walls rising
610 meters from the Crater floor this
natural amphitheatre measures about
19.2 km across in diameter and has
an area of 304 sq.km. It is such a
captivating and breathtaking phenomenon.
"It is impossible to give a fair
description of the crater", so wrote
Professor Bernhard Grzimek, "there is
nothing with which to compare. It is one
of the wonders of the world....." On the
floor of this Garden of Eden, which can
be reached by a four wheel drive
vehicle, roam hundreds of thousands of
plains animals. Elephants, buffalo,
zebra, wildebeest, gazelle, rhino,
velvet monkey and the ever hungry
predators, including cheetah, hyena's
and black maned lion can be observed at
close quarters in their natural
habitats. More than a hundred species of
birds not found in the Serengeti have
been spotted here. Ostriches, kori
bustards, secretary birds, crested
cranes, egrets, red billed ox peckers
and the countless flamingos which form a
pink cover over the soda lake can be
observed. Ngorongoro Crater is about 190
km from Arusha, 60 km from Lake Manyara
and 145 km from Serengeti. Very
comfortable accommodation facilities are
available
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The Ngorngoro Crater |
Size
19.2 km in diameter, 304 sq km in area
surrounded by very steep walls rising
610 meters from the crater floor
Location
Northern Tanzania, 2286 meters above sea
level
Getting there
it is approximately 190km from Arusha
town in a tarmac road up to the park
entry gate.
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What to do
Game drive, picnic, walking safari out
side the crater, visit near crater like
Emakai which is small to the ngorongoro,
Visit Olduvai Gorge were in 1959, Dr.
Louis Leakey and his wife discovered the
skull of the first "nutcraker man" and
then a year later the remains of homo
habils or handy man regarded as mankind
first step on the ladder of human
evolution.
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Accommodations
there a number of classic and ordinary
hotels surrounding the crater, campsites
and as well as outside the conservation
area and in the nearest Karatu town
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