NGORONGORO CONSERVATION AREA ( CRATER)

Situated 190 Km west of Arusha and it’s between Serengeti national Park and Lake Manyara.

This park is protected area by the Unesco as world heritage site and an international biosphere reserves Ngorongoro was a mountain whose peak was almost high like Kilimanjaro 2 million years ago that collapsed beneath forming s crater which the worlds largest and flooded caldera in the world today lies.

It’s approximately cover’s 8288 km sq. This conservation also consist of the Oldonyo Lengai Mountains empakani crater and Olduvai gorge where doctor Louise Leakey discovered the remains of homo habilis regarded as mankind first step on the human evolution theory .

The conservation is carpeted plain, Animals including herbivores and a large population of predictors. The conservation is also shared by Maasai people who are other main residents of Ngorongoro.

The altitude at the crater ring about 2286 m above sea level.