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Ngorongoro Conservation Area Slideshow
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A day at the Zoo
This is a top pick! ... mountain the size of Everest. But a few million years ago the mountain exploded and formed this immense crater. The area that we now know as Ngorongoro crater. The view from the rim is absolutely amazing. It feels like the part of Jurassic park where they ...
Journey to Myanmara
This is a top pick! ... wonderfull, about the size of a good Hong Kong apartment, with living room, grand bedroom, balcony overlooking the slopes of the Ngorongoro crater, very well appointed bathroom and a little hallway. No TV, no Radio, just us, nature and love. Of ...
Africa Wilderness - Ngorongoro Crater
This is a top pick! ... came across them tending their cattle. In fact, some of mankind’s earliest ancestors are known to have lived in the Ngorongoro area, where the rich fossil sites of Olduval Gorge have earned this part of the continent the title of 'cradle of ...
Ngoronrogo crator
This is a top pick! Ngorongoro Conservation Area 28th May 2008 We awake in the morning to no view of the crater below but instead we saw thick white cloud. It was still very cold and very wet. We had breakfast and then loaded ourselves into the Landcruiser for our ...
Olduvai Gorge and some wildlife
... Eleyo village to the Serengeti was long but not without interesting points. The majority of the drive was through the Ngorongoro Conservation area which is not a national park but a very large conservation area. The Masai people are still allowed to ...
Camp visitors
After lunch, our pop-up roof was closed and we drove for two hours through the plains and then winding up to the rim of the crater. The air is much cooler and windier up here, about 2,500m above sea level. We were warned to leave all our food and smelly ...
Thriller
... hours later we arrived at the western gate of the Serengeti. We had to pass through Serengeti National Park to get to Ngorongoro Conservation area, and discovered at the Welcome Center that we needed to pay an extra $50 to return through the park on ...
Game drives
So today saw us leave the truck behind for 4x4's and we headed into the Ngorongoro Crater conservation area. Ascended high into cloud at the crater rim before descending down to the crater floor; spectacular scenery for as far as the eye could see. ...
Game Drive in Ngorongoro Crater
After leaving the Serengeti we drive back up to the crater rim where we are staying the night. This time we're warned about buffalo, elephants and wild pigs. Not only do we have to remove our food from the tent, we also need to take out toothpaste, ...
Down into the crater
Today we woke up early, 5:30am, in the freezing cold and mist and had breakfast and headed into the crater. As we drove down into the crater, we immediately spotted two leopards in the long grass. We drove further to spot some wildebeast, on the way back ...
Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Crater
... sleeping in a tree, and on closer inspection, near it was slung a dead gazelle it was saving for later. We continued the game drive until lunch time, then started the journey to the Ngorongoro Conversation Area, where we camped on the rim of the ...
On The Road Again
... but the park officials make him pay for two beers as consolation. Something seems fishy here. Ngorongoro crater, according to the Tanzanian Tourist Authority, is the most popular destination in Tanzania, even more popular than the ...
The crater
Entering Ngorogoroe Crater is like entering an unfenced zoo. Animals of all kind are entrapped within the walls of the extinct volcano. Almost every animal that people associate with Africa live there, except giraffe that find the steep rim walls too ...
The Cradle of the Crater
Thursday 6th August. Up again before daybreak it was very chilly and we ate our egg and toast brekky and set off down into the crater. The cloud was thick as we were above the cloud line on the campsite rim and as we descended the cloud layer were ...
Serengeti to Ngorongoro Crater
... too good an opportunity to miss so we spent some time watching it before pushing on. The Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater are a continuous conservation area but are treated as separate parks for visitors. We again parted with an excessive amount of ...
Ngorongoro Crater
... with rocks, the lava had to escape and the mountain collapsed into a caldera. It creates it's own ecosystem. It is a conservation area because the Maasai continue to live here. We saw many of them with their cattle carrying spears to protect them ...
Jeeps, crockery and lion-hunting
... them, but there were seriously loads and loads, just loitering by the sides of the roads. We started off at Tarangire NP (I put Ngorongoro on the map cos it's more exciting and it only lets me put one place), then on day two moved on to Lake ...
Safari.... So goodie....
... lions in the distance! Around four we left the shores of Lake Manyara to head to our campsite on the rim of the Ngorongoro crater. Our campsite at the crater was amazing but very cold due to the altitude and the cloud that seems to permanently ...
Twenty Cows
... lining the roads and could often tell that a steep cliff lay just off the side of the road. We soon entered the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and left paved roads behind until the drive back to Arusha. After quite a while of cloud vision, the ...
Safari!! (2)
... some of the local guides around. Good times Day 4 – Now a bit of background information. The world famous Ngorongoro Crater is a caldera (collapsed volcano) so it is not surprising that the Ngorongoro crater has got the densest population of lions ...
Day 212 - On the Prowl for Breakfast
... of parental oversight and in fact encouragement for children to seek out tourists on such a busy thoroughfare. We arrived at the Ngorongoro Crater camp where we were literally told ‘we could select our own tent sites’. This was a ...
Awake to pea soup & then down into this big hole
... their hundreds for their annual migration to the Masai Mara. I certainly preferred the Serengeti to the Ngorongoro Crater but both were marvellous places to see the animals in their natural environment. Visiting ...
Ngorongoro Crater
Ngorogoro Crater is only part of a group of interrelated ecosystems adjacent to Serengeti National Park. The entire conservation area comprises 8300 sq km. The crater itself is a 20 km circle of very steep mountains. "Crater" might not ...
More Overlanders
Bugger.. we must learn to ask is this camp site going to invaded by overland trucks heavily laden with tourists.. once again we had the place to ourselves until about 4:00pm then 2 loads bumped in. The upside is Lisa and I orientate our seats to watch ...
Ngorongoro Crater
... male elephant was a good idea. The next morning after breakfast it was time for our final safari experience down in the Ngorongoro crater. It took probably 20 minutes to drive down the steep and bumpy road into the crater. The first thing we ...
Ngorongoro Crater
We left the truck behind to go to the Serengeti so were all in Jeeps. The Ngorongoro Crater is amazing! We saw so many animals! We came across some Lions who had been feasting on a Zebra, and wanted to rest in some shade - so they did, ...
And then there was wine!
... then goes home for a month. We then went on a cool game drive and had a picnic lunch at the border of Serengeti and Ngorongoro parks. Stopped at the Olduvai Gorge where Louis and Mary Leakey did much of their field work. Its known as the ...