Ngorongoro Crater Trek Tanzania
Highlights:
1. Game drives
2. Crater Lake
3. Olduvai Gorge
Ngorongoro Crater currently a world heritage area is situated within the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. It occupies over 8,000 sq km. Ngorongoro is surrounded by Lake Eyasi in the south west and the Gol Mountains in the north.
This crater is thought to be part of the natural wonders of the world. At 2,286m altitude, this crater is the leading unbroken caldera in the world.
The crater is a habitat to about 30,000 with at least half made up by wild beast and zebra. more animals usually seen in the craters floor are the black rhino, elephants, buffalo, hippo, jackal, hyena, lion, bush buck, reed buck, hartebeest, warthogs, huge herds of both Thompson’s and Grant’s gazelle.
Mountain forests, lush vegetation, and fresh springs enclose the rim of the crater’s very tall walls, which top out at an elevation of 7,500 feet. With its spectacular natural beauty and the stillness of its environment, Ngorongoro is usually known as “Africa’s Garden of Eden”.