The Ngorogoro crater is absolutely magnificent, it is an unbroken, unflooded volcanic caldera (if you want to get technical). It was formed 3million years ago when a giant volcano erupted and collapsed on itself. It is 2000 feet from the rim to crater floor and it covers 260 square kilometres. Basically its bloody massive and supports a HUGE amount of wildlife, including the critically endangered Black Rhino (there is only 20 in Northern Tanzania). Which is not actually black – I think it was just a bad translation from its original dutch name.. Magnificent beasts they are – we saw 7 or so of them but sadly none up close. They do resemble natures version of a tank to its full extent.
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| Wildabeest mid run - NCA |
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| Lone male bull Elephant in the Crater |
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| Posing on the rim of the Crater |
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| A snippet of the Great Migration |
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| Flamingos |
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| Flamingo |
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| Black Kite |
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| Black bellied Bustard |
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| The plains of the Serengeti |
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| Olduvai Gorge - Earliest human remains found here NCA |
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| Fossil of extinct herbivore with cool horns |
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| A view over the NCA |
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