Ngorongoro Crater

Ngorongoro is not a national park but a multiple use conservation area where people and wildlife co-exist in their natural setting.

Size 304 Square Kilometers and 600m deep.

Location It is in the north west of Arusha town.

Distance 190kms- 3hours drive from Arusha.

Ngorongoro craterc at 2286km above sea level is the largest and huge unbroken caldera in the world. Very steep walls rising 610m from the crater floor surround it. It is a natural amphi-theatre, which measures 19.2kms in diameter and 304 sp kms in area. It is a home to upto 30000 animals including some of Tanzania’s last remaining black rhino. The rhino emerge from the forests in the mists of early morning, and their pre historic figures making a striking impression, surrounded by the ancient crater walls. Animals are free to enter or leave the crater, but many of them stay for the plentiful water and grazing available on the crater floor through out the year.

The Ngorongoro crater is widely known as the eight wonder of the world.