Ngorongoro Conservation Area

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area is a huge area containing active volcanoes, mountains, archaeological sites, rolling plains, forests, lakes, sand dunes and Ngorongoro crater, a true natural wonder of the world. The views at the rim of Ngorongoro Crater are sensational. On the crater floor, grassland blends into swamps, lakes, rivers, woodland and mountains - all a haven for wildlife including the densest predator population in Africa. The crater is home to up to 25,000 large mammals, mainly grazers - gazelle, buffalo, eland, hartebeest and warthog. You will not find giraffe since there is little to eat at tree level, nor topi, because the competition with wildebeest is too fierce. The crater elephants are strangely, mainly bulls. There are a good number of black rhino here, and the bird life is largely seasonal but superb. In the northern, remote part of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area you will find Olmoti and Empakaai craters and be in view of Lake Natron and Oldonyo Lengai.

Olduvai Gorge

Olduvai, more accurately called ldupai after the wild sisal in the area, is the site of some of the most important fossil hominid finds of all time - Nutcracker Man - or Australopithecus boisei who lived 1.75 million years ago. The history of the gorge and the work of Louis and Mary Leakey is chronicled in the informative museum located at the visitor centre. The gorge is a treasure trove of archaeological sites and information, filled with fossils, settlement remains and stone artifacts. Lecture tours are offered.