Ngorongoro Crater is where you would want to go. Nowhere else in Africa, does such a varied cast of animals gather to graze, live and die.
On a game drive into the belly of the crater you will encounter some 30,000 animals over areas as diverse as swampland, open savannah, grassland, forest and lake; all of this within the steep rock walls that climb some 600m to the rim.
Ngorongoro also boasts the highest concentration of predators in Africa. Black-maned lions, skittish cheetah and leopards stalk the crater floor, bellies full and grins wide as they pick and chose from thousands of potential victims.
The Crater was formed by the collapse of one of Africa's volcanic giants over two million years ago. This was a volcano so high that it is likely that it would have overshadowed Mount Kilimanjaro - if it had not blown up instead, covering the Serengeti in ash and collapsing to the crater floor. |