EXPLORE NGORONGORO NATIONAL PARK
Ngorongoro Conservation Area is located 180 km west of Arusha in the crater highland area of northern Tanzania and Southeast of Serengeti National Park and is home to the vast volcanic Caldera Ngorongoro Crater and the “big five” game (Lion, Leopard, Elephant, Buffalo, and Rhino) and large numbers of wildebeest trek the conservation area during their annual migration and large herds of the livestock of the semi-nomadic Maasai tribe graze alongside wild animals.
The Ngorongoro Crater is breathtaking natural wonder about 20 km across, 600 m deep and 300km2 in the area with its own climate and the largest unflooded and unbroken caldera in the world and one of Africa’s greatest famous site with the highest density of wildlife in Africa.
The crater is often sometimes described as the ‘eighth wonder of the world’ with an ever-increasing number of tourists every year. Its rim is over 2,200 meters high and experiences its own climate while the swathes of cloud hang around the rocky rim most days of the Year and get chilly at night.
The crater floor consists of a large number of different habitats that include the grassland, swamps, forests, rivers and Lake Makat (Soda Lake filled by the Munge River). All these attract huge wildlife to drink, graze, hide, wallow and climb.
ACTIVITIES IN NGORONGORO CONSERVATION AREA
1. Wildlife watching.
Ngorongoro Crater is the best area in Tanzania to see the endangered Black Rhinos, Leopards, fabulous black-manned lions, the Ngoitoktok Springs is home to hippos and is an excellent picnic spot and the Lerai Forest I habitat for baboons, vervet monkeys, waterbucks, and great tusker bull elephants. There is nowhere else in Africa quite like Ngorongoro with great wildlife viewing in a genuinely mind-blowing environment. Therefore, Book 3 days Ngorongoro National Park Tour with us
2. Flamingo Bird watching
Many Flamingo birds are attracted to the soda like waters of Lake Magadi in the rainy season
3. Cultural Encounters.
There are a large number of the Masai tribe people living in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Essentially Nomadic people, they build temporary villages in circular homesteads called Bomas. Tourist will be welcomed at two designated cultural Bomas, one on the road to Serengeti and another close to Sopa Lounge at Irkeepusi Village and will explore how their huts are built in the strict pattern of order according to the chronological order of the wives and experience the warmth and energy from the fire burning at the heart of a cattle dung dwelling with no chimney
4. Game Drives
Ngorongoro Crater is such a unique environment with a well-cared and protected eco-system which makes game drive safaris a life experience however, there are no walking Safaris. Tourists when here enjoy either morning or afternoon game drive daily. You will a number of wildlife that inhabits in the surrounding swamps, flamingos around the lake Magadi shores and many more
- Area:
- 8,292 km²
- Address /Location:
- Arusha region Tanzania - 180 km (110 mi) west of Arusha, north of Karatu and east of the Serengeti National Park
- Annual Visitors:
- Over 500,000 per year
- Drive Distance:
- 3-hour drive from Arusha
- Travel Schedule:
- Dry season is between June and October. Flora and fauna are plentiful in January and February. Thunderstorms occur in November and December, and there is heavy rainfall from March through May
- Activities:
- wildlife watching, Flamingo birding, Nature walks, Hiking, Cultural Encounters, Game Drives
- Attractions:
- Ngorongoro Crater, Ngorongoro Lions, Oldoinyo Lengai Gorge / Volcano, Empakaai Crater, Wildlife Game Safari at Ngorongoro Crater, Vegetation Cover, Lake Magadi, Nuseum, Olmoti Crater, Flamingo Birds.
- Accommodations:
- Ngorongoro crater Lodge, Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge, North and South camps, Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge