Ngorongoro Crater; Safari and Wildlife Experience.

Ngorongoro Crater, the largest unflooded and unbroken Caldera in the world is 19.2 kilometers in diameter, 610 meters deep and 304 square kilometers in area. A large resident population of wildlife of around 25,000, predominantly grazing animals is said to be supported by the rich pasture and permanent water of the Ngorongoro Crater floor.

Some of these animals are; Gazelle, wildebeest, warthog, zebra, eland, buffalo, and hartebeest. Meanwhile, the swamps and forest offer more resources for reedbuck and bushbuck, hippo, elephant, waterbuck, vervet monkeys as well as baboons. But elephants of the Ngorongoro Crater regularly get down to the floor of the Ngorongoro Crater. The large breeding herds move around throughout the forest rim in quest for suitable food. Jackals thrive in the Crater and bat eared foxes live in the short grass area.

Predatory animals in the Ngorongoro crater move around the Ngorongoro Crater, making their own kills and scavenging from others. Some of these animals include lion, several cats, leopards, cheetah, and large packs of hyena. The crater has got five main crater prides between 10-20 animals, each defending its own territory. African Mecca guests may have a better opportunity of viewing cheetahs on the plains because of the fact that most of them live in the Ngorongoro Crater and sometimes find it hard to defend their kills against the many lions. Leopards, solitary and secretive creatures, are found in the forest and along the Minge stream, but well-trained guides are the ones that can spot them. The black rhino in the Ngorongoro Crater are getting safer and safer each day, no wonder therefore the numbers are also rising with time and these are all works of the anti poaching patrols, thanks to them. The mixture of forest, canyons, grassland plains, lakes plus marshes offered habitats for a wide range of bird life. During the wet months, the Eurasian migrants normally arrive at the open pools. For example; white storks, yellow wagtails, stilts, saddle bill storms, ruff, Ibis and various species of duck.

A few flamingos also fly in to feed from their breeding grounds at lake Natron. There are also grassland birds of Kori bustards, crowned cranes and ostrich that are normally spoted gathering together. Putting Ngorongoro Crater a side, the other parts of the Ngorongoro have got areas, which will reward the keen ornithologist. In final analysis, the Ngorongoro Crater is a dynamic and constantly changing ecosystem and the numbers of some of the animals rise and fall with time.