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Experience extraordinary Tanzanian landscape like this intact caldera in the Ngorongoro Crater Conservation area when you take a tailor-made holiday with Alfred&. Experience extraordinary Tanzanian landscape like this intact caldera in the Ngorongoro Crater Conservation area when you take a tailor-made holiday with Alfred&.
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Ngorongoro Crater
Ngorongoro Crater

Tailor-made Ngorongoro Crater Holidays

Descend 600 metres into the Ngorongoro Crater, an ancient amphitheatre home to one of Africa’s largest wildlife concentrations. In this gigantic cauldron, created by a volcanic collapse nearly three million years ago, over 30,000 animals roam. If you’re short on time, there’s no better place in Tanzania for guaranteed animal sightings. Within the steep walls of this UNESCO World Heritage Site, big cats and spotted hyenas hunt herbivores in the grasslands, giant-tusked elephants patrol the forests and salmon-hued flamingos flock to the algae-laced waters of Lake Magadi. Most coveted are the sightings of endangered black rhinos, who thrive in this fertile volcanic basin.

The crater is part of the larger Ngorongoro Conservation area where tented camps, farmhouse coffee plantations and hilltop lodges litter the landscape, even tottering directly on the crater rim. Here, your days are spent enjoying crater floor game drives and picnics overlooking waterholes that attract over 500 rainbow bird species. Ngorongoro is also the land of the Maasai and lesser-known Iraqw and Datoga people, who, in centuries-old tradition, continue to graze their cattle on the lush plains fed by Ngorongoro’s permanent springs, rivers and hippo-inhabited swamps. Look out for their bomas, clusters of circular mud huts, as you traverse Ngorongoro’s wild, volcanic terrain.

Explore one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa with help from our Africa experts, who know all the best Ngorongoro Crater lodges and can arrange game drives with local guides.

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Crater rim views at Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge

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Oldeani Mountain Lodge: luxury in the heart of Ngorongoro

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Coffee tours, horse-riding and game drives at The Manor

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