Conservation Area · Tanzania
Ngorongoro Crater
A collapsed volcano turned Garden of Eden — 25,000 large animals living inside the world's largest intact caldera, ringed by 600-metre walls.
A collapsed volcano turned Garden of Eden — 25,000 large animals living inside the world's largest intact caldera, ringed by 600-metre walls.
Three million years ago a giant volcano collapsed into itself, creating a 260 km² natural amphitheatre. Today its grasslands, swamps, forests and soda lake sustain one of the densest wildlife populations in Africa — including the endangered black rhino.
Descend the crater wall at dawn as the mist lifts, and within minutes you may see lions, elephants, hyenas and flamingos — all framed by the towering caldera rim.
Plan This Experience
Ngorongoro is a living cultural landscape where Maasai herders graze cattle alongside zebra and wildebeest, exactly as they have for centuries.
Visit a highland boma, walk with a Maasai guide along the crater rim, and pair your visit with Olduvai Gorge — the 'Cradle of Mankind' where humanity's earliest footsteps were found.
Plan This Experience
Everything you need to know before you go — timed and tailored by our local experts.
Animals concentrate around the crater floor's water sources and the grass is short — the easiest, most rewarding game viewing of the year.
Lush scenery, flamingo flocks on Lake Magadi and superb photographic light between the short and long rains.
The crater at its greenest and quietest. Occasional showers, dramatic skies and the best lodge rates.
The crater is one of the very few places in Africa where all five are regularly seen in a single game drive.
One of Tanzania's last strongholds for this critically endangered giant.
Sleep on the crater's edge with the whole caldera at your feet.
Authentic community visits arranged with respect and genuine benefit-sharing.
Six hundred metres below the rim, a self-contained Eden is waiting. We'll take you down at first light — and make you enjoy every bit of it.
Four of our favourite journeys through this destination — every one fully customisable.
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