Venture into the Ngorongoro Crater, a UNESCO World Heritage Site teeming with an abundance of wildlife. Descend into the crater and witness the sheer diversity of species that call this place home. Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater is the world’s biggest intact caldera and home to 30,000 wild animals, including leopards, elephants, lions and rare black rhinos.
At 19km wide and with a surface of 264 sq km, Ngorongoro is one of the largest unbroken calderas in the world that isn’t a lake. Its steep walls soar 400m to 610m and provide the setting for an incredible natural drama, as prey and predators graze and stalk their way around the open grasslands, swamps and acacia woodland on the crater floor. It's such an impressive sight that, other vehicles aside, you'll wonder whether you've descended into a wildlife paradise.
There are plenty of hippos around the lovely Ngoitoktok Springs picnic site, and Lake Magadi attracts flocks of flamingos to its shallows in the rainy season. Lereal Forest (which has a less appealing picnic site, and is the starting point for the Lereal or Lerai ascent road) is good for elephants, of which there are 200 to 300 in the crater.
- The world’s only intact caldera – 610 metres (2 000 feet) deep and covers 260 square kilometers (100 square miles)
- Ngorongoro Crater is a UNESCO world heritage site
- Wildlife haven, with a very high game concentration on the Crater floor
- Fresh springs and large soda lake within the Crater
- The Lerai Forest is one of the best places in Africa for leopard sightings
Early Morning Start of our Safari
Right before sunrise, be ready for a pick-up from your hotel or your stay in Arusha town. Your driver-guide will collect your picnic lunches, and drive 190 km on the tarmac road to the Ngorongoro Conservation entry gate.
From the gate, drive to the Crater Rim and spend a few minutes for an awesome view of the Crater from the top, descend into the crater floor for a day of game drive. Ngorongoro Crater is one the largest intact caldera in the world and one of the most spectacular sights in the whole of Africa. All the BIG FIVE Rhino, Lion, Leopard, Buffalo, and Elephant live in this wonderful caldera, others are Zebra, Hippo, Wildebeest, Hyena, and more… Birds include flamingos on the Soda lake, Geese, Storks, Vultures, and more other bird families.
Afterwards continue with the game drive throughout the various ecosystems of the crater, including woodland filled with zebra and baboon, plains that support scavenging hyenas and a lake that is tinted pink with greater and lesser flamingos
Deep in the afternoon ascend the Crater and drive back to Arusha.
What is included in the tour
- Transportation on a well maintained 4×4 safari Land cruiser with pop-up roof
- Well-trained drive guide
- Mouth-watering packed lunch
- Mineral water
- Ngorongoro Crater fees
- Mentioned Activities.
What is NOT included in the tour
- Camping Fees
- International Flights and Taxes
- Passports and Visa Applications and Processing
- Travel Insurance
- Tips and Gratitudes to drivers and Guides
