Ngorongoro Crater Game Drive

Ngorongoro is the remains of a huge volcano which erupted and collapsed, leaving this caldera. It is over 200 sq.km in area and 610 metres from floor to lip. You have to drive up a frightening single lane road at the edge of the cliff used as a two lane road before getting to a viewpoint, at the rim top, then go down an equally scary road to the crater floor.
Once there, you find a dense population of wildlife. There are no giraffe's, impalas or crocs, but we will see large amounts of most other animals. There are a couple dozen of the rare black rhino and we spent a good time driving around there usual haunt, but no luck. It was interesting seeing a large troop of baboons on the barren floor in contrast to the ones we saw in the forest of Manyara yesterday.

The large lake in the middle attracts aquatic animals like hippo and lesser flamingo.
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Saw my first serval cat.

Great spot. We had lunch ending at 2pm and had to move it to Olduvai Gorge.Read more