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Ngorongoro Conservation Area Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
Journey to Myanmara
This is a top pick! ... , wonderful. We are driven back to through the ghettos of Dar to the airport. As the first light hits the streets it still looks as dangerous and uninviting as the day before. more ...
Olduvai Gorge and some wildlife
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
A day at the Zoo
This is a top pick! ... comes as early as ever. It was still half dark outside when we made our way from our villa at the far end of the plantation lodge to the restaurant for our morning breakfast. more ...
Camp visitors
This is a top pick! 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 ...
The Pride devours the Buffallo
This is a top pick! ... it one of the worlds largest craters. The Crater provides a permanent water source and grass lands, hence the abundance of herds. Ngorongoro is shared between the Local Massi and the herds. It is not uncommon to see local boys herding their cows through ...
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 ...
Rare rhinos and sexy lions
... other side of the road: a hyena is trying to prove some point against a couple of jackalls, only to be chased of by a... zebra! Ngorongoro, too, has a hippo pool, so we can't pass up on that! Hippos are always in for a laugh. When a male hippo tries to ...
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 ...
Safari dag 3,4,5
... väldigt nere över att behöva bo där istället för i ett lyxigt tält med utsikt över serengeti. På lördagen åkte tidigt till Ngorongoro kratern och det var helt fantastiskt. Vi åkte upp på kanten av kratern, 2200 m över havet, och såg ...
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 ...
Ngorongoro Crater- The icing on the cake
We saw a couple black rhino way off in the distance. The day also brought our total lion count to 45 but the highlight was watching a lion hunt a wildebeest. If you check out the video and hear excitement (and no regard for the poor, innocent ...
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 ...
Crater Day!
A whole day to explore the Ngorongoro Crater which was created when a giant volcano exploded and collapsed about 3 million years ago - give or take a year or so! It covers about 260 square kilometres and the floor is 600 metres deep. The floor is ...
Rioja on the rim
... bottles away well - stuffed in between sleeping bags and pillows to avoid any costly breakages on the rough roads. On our way towards Ngorongoro crater we stopped at a Masai village so some of the guys who hadn’t had the chance to see the village in ...
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 ...
Ngorongoro - Africa's Garden Of Eden
Our next destination in Tanzania was Ngorongoro Conservation Area and - more specifically - Ngorongoro Crater... The Crater is the world's largest unbroken caldera which was created two to three million years ...