THE NGORONGORO CRATER
Often called the eighth natural wonder of the world, the Ngorongoro Crater is the largest intact crater in the world. About 2 million years ago the Ngorongoro volcano erupted, and its walls collapsed. The volcano floor sank to create a natural enclosure with its 600m tall walls. Now, at over 19 kilometres wide, Ngorongoro Crater is filled with great areas of acacia forest, hippo filled swamps and open grasslands. These different habitats contain over 30,000 animals – including elephants, warthogs, flamingoes, magnificent birdlife, the rare black rhinoceros and all the predatory cats.
Ngorongoro
The World's Largest Unbroken Caldera
Often called the eighth natural wonder of the world, the Ngorongoro Crater is the largest intact crater in the world. About 2 million years ago the Ngorongoro volcano erupted, and its walls collapsed.Â
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The volcano floor sank to create a natural enclosure with its 600m tall walls. Now, at over 19 kilometres wide, Ngorongoro Crater is filled with great areas of acacia forest, hippo filled swamps and open grasslands.
These different habitats contain over 30,000 animals – including elephants, warthogs, flamingoes, magnificent birdlife, the rare black rhinoceros and all the predatory cats.Â
The Maasai can also be seen grazing their cattle alongside the buffalo and wildebeest.There are several documented resident lion prides just within a one-hour game drive radius from Seronera. During the dry season, the resident prides begin to shift west and north in their territories and concentrate in the central region of the park.
Ngorongoro's Diverse Fauna
THE MIGHTY HORNED BEAST
In Africa, we have black and white rhinos. Ngorongoro is blessed with a large population of white rhinos. Did you know that the rhino is the second largest mammal on earth!
THE KING OF THE JUNGLE
The Ngorongoro Crater has multiple large prides of lions that can be easily spotted. They live in prides because they’re social animals. Females hunt more than males though!
THE AFRICAN BUSH ELEPHANT
The elephant is the world’s largest animal. Elephants are peaceful when left alone and did you know that to smell and place food in their mouths, they use their trunks!
THE GRANT ZEBRA
Since the 1960s, Tanzania has been blessed with the presence of zebras. Every year, loads of zebras commence their journey from Tanzania to Kenya and that is the Great Migration.Â
THE LAUGHING HYENA
The hyenas are a common sight in Tanzania and they are just exquisite dogs. The striped hyena is the most popular one to see in Tanzania.Â