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Ngorongoro Crater
The roar of “Africa’s Eden” still resounds within the walls of Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater, a self-contained microcosm that harbors East Africa’s most spectacular wildlife, roaming the crater’s floor freely in unparalleled abundance. How do you get the most out of a journey into this primal savannah, billed as “the Eighth Natural Wonder of the World”? Let Stride be your guide by comparing, choosing and booking a safari that fulfills your dreams of Africa.
Top Ngorongoro Crater Experiences
- Watching a pride of lions cross the grasslands within eyeshot of a herd of Thomson’s gazelles.
- Braking for a crossing of elephants, the world’s largest land-based animals, as they guide their young across the crater floor.
- Glimpsing an elephant in tree cover beside the road as your safari vehicle descends through the mists from the crater rim.
- Toasting the day’s game drive with a “sundowner” from the deck of the lodge’s grill/bar.
- Picnicking at the hippo pool, with a lunch spread out on the hood of your safari vehicle.
- Seeing thousands of pink flamingos take flight above the salty banks of Lake Magadi.
- Spotting a leopard in a forest grove, asleep on a tree limb.
- Encountering a Masai tribesman dressed in traditional red cloak herding his cattle within the crater walls.
- Surveying the barren landscape and exposed geological layers of the Great Rift Valley at Olduvai Gorge, where Louis and Mary Leakey discovered the fossilized remains of mankind’s early ancestors.
- Tracing the movements of a cheetah as it pauses, turns, stretches and weaves its way through the undulating savannah grasses in search of prey.
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