Ngorongoro Crater -Tanzania
The Ngorongoro Crater is the sixth largest collapsed crater in the world, located in northern Tanzania. Once volcanic and nearly three million years old, it is distinctively the largest unbroken and unflooded crater. It is about 20 kilometres wide, ringed with steep walls, and its rim stands at 610 metres above the crater floor. Within its walls it has its own resident animals, birds, water, vegetation, including grasslands, forests and salt pans. It has a striking scenery and close range viewing of the wildlife, and is considered by some as the eighth natural wonder of the world.
Day 3
Breakfast. Check out of your hotel (Nairobi Jacaranda Hotel).
Depart at 7:00 am and head for the Kenya-Tanzania border where we have a cup of tea at the Namanga Border Gate, and then cross the border into Tanzania. We then pass through Arusha town and head for the Ngorongoro Crater.
Today we carry our lunch with us. You will not find the road trip boring; it is East Africa. During your trip you will be amazed by the Masai people (a nomadic tribe in Kenya which has resisted modern civilization todate) with their cattle, and it is not hard to see two or three 10-year old boys on foot driving a mob of 500 head along the side of the road. We arrive at the Crater late afternoon and check into the Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge situated on the rim of the crater for our overnight stay.
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Day 4 |
| Breakfast. Check out of the lodge (Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge). Morning game drive down onto the floor of the Crater. This normally takes half a day and it will be the first taste of real animals where the rich pasture and permanent water on the crater floor shelters thousands of animals, including endangered species like the black rhino. We return to the lodge for lunch and then travel back to Arusha in the afternoon. (Overnight Impala Hotel Arusha). |
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