Ngorongoro Conservation Area
From the viewing point hundreds of meters above Ngorongoro crater, the panorama spreads out in a vast amphitheatre. The hills rise smoothly from the crater floor through evergreen forest, and rain clouds cascade over the eastern rim. Visitor drives down the descent road, the black dots below become discernable shapes, with the crater becoming ever more beautiful and irresistible.
Covering an area of 8,292 sq. km, varying in altitude from 1,020 to 3,587 meters located 160 km west of Arusha city. Known by many as the “Garden of Eden and home of mankind” where Maasai pastoralists and wildlife live together like the legendary biblical Garden of Eden. Ngorongoro conservation area posed to be the fascinating part of the world with natural wonders including its intriguing crater, an idyllic nature and landscape made up the crater 19.2 km in diameter and 602 meters deep from the rim to the bottom. Only few predators and carnivores migrate in and out of the crater with its 2000 feet high walls. It is 261 sq km, contains a soda lake and abounds with wildlife in mountain forest, highland heath and bush land as well as dry grassland, swamp and acacia woodland.
Zebra and wildebeest mix on the crater floor along with some 50 lions, 400 hyenas, grant’s and Thomson’s gazelles, various types of jackal, greater and lesser flamingo and many other species. In all, Ngorongoro has some 25,000 animals, making this the most intensive game-viewing area on earth.