Ngorongoro Crater Safaris

If you were offered a single safari holiday in your lifetime, one chance in which to experience Africa, the Ngorongoro Crater is where you would want to go. Nowhere else in Africa does such a varied cast of animals gather to graze, live, hunt and die.

On one of our Ngorongoro Crater Safaris you will encounter some of the 30,000 animals in the crater's diverse range of habitats: swampy wetlands, open savannah, woodland and lake - all within the steep rock walls that climb through thick forest some 600m to the rim.

Ngorongoro Crater Safaris offer the opportunity to see the highest concentration of predators in Africa: prides of lion, skittish cheetah and stealthy leopards stalk the crater floor.

Africa's familiar faces are everywhere: hippos inhabit the swamps; wildebeest and buffalo graze the grasslands in their thousands, and hundreds of flamingos live on the lake, much to the delight of the scavenging hyenas. Even Africa's extremely rare black rhino has found refuge within the crater's walls while elephants haunt the ghostly fever tree forest.

To add to this surreal environment, Maasai tribesman - easily visible in their traditional scarlet robes - can be spotted guiding their cattle down the steep crater walls. The mythical Maasai graze their cattle here, seemingly unshaken by the presence of so many predators.

How to see it all? Ngorongoro Crater accommodation is limited but, in most cases, spectacular.

Choose from a range of luxury lodges on the rim or located close by - and it wouldn't hurt to read our When to go to Ngorongoro Crater section to get your timing right.

Tapping into expert knowledge is your best way to maximise your Ngorongoro game-viewing experience. We have a number of excellent Ngorongoro Crater Safaris - all you have to do is choose which one suits your needs best.

If our selection of Ngorongoro Crater Safaris seems a bit overwhelming, then we can narrow it down for you.

We recommend our week-long Gems of the North luxury safari, our intensive 6-day Kifaru Safari and the flagship10-day Asilia Premier Tanzania Safari which promises to deliver the very best of northern Tanzania.

View a map of the Ngorongoro Crater Conservancy here.

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