3 Hours : Transfer to Ngorongoro Crater
With the three-hour journey to see stunning Ngorongoro ahead of us, a 07.00 departure from your hotel in Arusha City. The jewel in Ngorongoro's crown is a deep, volcanic crater, the largest un flooded and unbroken caldera in the world that isn’t a lake. It is home to approximately 30,000 animals at any one time. The Crater rim is over 2,200 metres high and experiences its own climate. From this high vantage point it is possible to make out the tiny shapes of animals making their way around the crater floor far below. Swathes of cloud hang around the rocky rim most days of the year and it’s one of the few places in Tanzania where it can get chilly at night. Its steep walls soar 400m to 610m and provide the setting for an incredible natural drama, as prey and predators graze and stalk their way around the open grasslands, swamps and acacia woodland on the crater floor.
Full Day: Game-viewing Ngorongoro Crater
After taking photos at the rim, head to Ngorongoro Crater floor where you will descend down to the Crater floor. It's such an impressive sight that, other vehicles aside, you'll wonder whether you've descended into a wildlife paradise. The crater floor consists of a number of different habitats that include grassland, swamps, forests and Lake Makat (Maasai for ‘salt’)- a central soda lake filled by the Munge River. All these various environments attract wildlife to drink, wallow, graze, hide or climb. Although animals are free to move in and out of this contained environment, the rich volcanic soil, lush forests and spring source lakes on the crater floor (combined with fairly steep crater sides) tend to incline both grazers and predators to remain throughout the year.
3 Hours: Ngorongoro Crater- Arusha City
In the late afternoon at 16.00, we set off from the park to reach Arusha City and your hotel again by 18.00.
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