This is a day trip to Ngorongoro Crater
Morning picks up at your hotel/Kilimanjaro airport by our guide and drive to Ngorongoro Crater with packed lunch boxes. On arrival descend inside the crater for games drives and have a picnic lunch. Continue with afternoon game drives until 1600hrs and drive back to Arusha Town. On arrival, you will be transferred back to your hotel.
Ngorongoro crater is just one part of a larger area of interrelated ecosystems consisting of the crater highlands (to which the Ngorongoro Crater belongs) together with larger stretches of plains bush and woodland. Ngorongoro conservation area covers an area of about 8300 sq km. Near its center is the Olduvai Gorge where many fossils have been earthed. Ngorongoro Crater is one of Africa’s best-known wildlife – viewing areas. The crater is about 20kms wide and it is one of the largest calderas in the world. Within its walls is a variety of animals and vegetation, including grasslands, swamps, forests, salt pans, a freshwater lake, and rich wildlife. The wildlife found includes lions, elephants, buffalos, wildebeests, Thomson’s gazelles, and zebras reedbucks.
