If you
were offered a single safari holiday
in your lifetime, one chance in which to
experience Africa, the Ngorongoro
Crater is where you would want to go.
Nowhere else in Africa does such a varied
cast of animals gather to graze, live, hunt
and die.
On one of
our Ngorongoro Crater Safaris you will encounter
some of the 30,000 animals in the
crater's diverse range of habitats:
swampy wetlands, open savannah, woodland and lake -
all within the steep rock walls that climb through
thick forest some 600m to the rim.
Ngorongoro
Crater Safaris offer the opportunity to see the
highest concentration of predators
in Africa: prides of lion, skittish
cheetah and stealthy
leopards stalk the crater floor.
Africa's
familiar faces are everywhere:
hippos inhabit the swamps; wildebeest and buffalo
graze the grasslands in their thousands, and
hundreds of flamingos live on the lake, much to the
delight of the scavenging hyenas. Even Africa's
extremely rare black rhino has
found refuge within the crater's
walls while elephants haunt the
ghostly fever tree forest.
To add to
this surreal environment, Maasai
tribesman - easily visible in their traditional
scarlet robes - can be spotted
guiding their cattle down the steep crater walls.
The mythical Maasai graze their cattle here,
seemingly unshaken by the presence
of so many predators.
How to see
it all? Ngorongoro Crater accommodation is limited
but, in most cases,
spectacular.
Choose
from a range of luxury lodges on the rim or located
close by - and it wouldn't hurt to read
our When to go to Ngorongoro Crater section to get
your timing right.
Tapping
into expert knowledge is your best
way to maximise your Ngorongoro
game-viewing experience. We have a number of
excellent Ngorongoro Crater Safaris - all you have
to do is choose which one suits your needs best.
If our
selection of Ngorongoro Crater Safaris seems a bit
overwhelming, then we can narrow it down for you.
