Ngorongoro Crater

Famously known as Africa’s Garden of Eden, Ngorongoro crater is one of Africa’s best natural wildlife playgrounds

Highlights
Famously known as Africa’s Garden of Eden, Ngorongoro crater is one of Africa’s best natural wildlife playgrounds, Ngorongoro Conservation Area is one of the best places in the country to see the rare black rhinoceros. Home to sum of the Big Five, Ngorongoro is a natural wonder that needs to be seen to be believed. It has been mentioned several times as among the 7 natural wonders of the world
Nearby Empakai Crater is exceptional for hiking, while Oldupai Gorge is home to the Cradle of Mankind.
Other attractions within the rims of Ngorongoro Crater include Lake Ndutu (calving ground for the Wildebeest Migration), the active volcano of Ol Doinyo Lengai mountain, and the famed hippo pools.

Ngorongoro Crater provides its visitors an eye-catching scenery of a deep and majestic placed volcanic Crater, the world’s largest un-flooded and unbroken caldera. The Crater is a breathtaking natural sensation covers 12 miles (19 km) across and 102 square miles (264 sq km) of wilderness. The edge of the crater landscape rises just over 2,000 feet (610 m) above the caldera bottom reaching an elevation of 7,500 feet (2,286 m).

Ngorongoro Crater and its surrounding landscape was shaped out of a volcano eruption creating the caldera that become a wilderness haven.
From February 11th, 2013 Ngorongoro Crater has been named as one of the seven worlds’ natural wonders.

It is also famously known as Africa’s Garden of Eden, and a home to over 30,000 diverse animals’ species including wildebeests, buffaloes, elephants, lions, cheetahs and the rare black rhinos.
Human presence inside Ngorongoro crater goes back beyond the dawn of history as proved by the numerous remains of hominids, mankind’s earliest identifiable ancestors. The world’s two well-known pre-historic archaeological sites Gorge and Laetoli are inside Ngorongoro conservation area.

The Laetoli describe footprints of our remote ancient ancestors who lived in the area about 3.5 million years ago.
Key Safari adventure activities you can enjoy at Ngorongoro Crater are Maasai Village Cultural Tour, Game drive, Picnic Lunch and hiking in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area on the edge of the Crater.

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