Aerial view over the Ngorongoro Crater floor, Tanzania
Tanzania

Ngorongoro Crater

Overview

The largest intact volcanic caldera on earth, six hundred metres deep and holding around 25,000 animals that cannot easily leave. Black rhino, huge elephant bulls and dense lion prides share grassland, soda lake and fever-tree forest inside the crater floor. Because the wildlife is enclosed, sightings are reliable in every season. Lodges sit on the forested rim with the whole caldera below them.

At a glance
CountryTanzania
Best timeYear-round; June to October is driest

Safaris that visit Ngorongoro Crater

Bush and Diani Beach - white sand Kenyan coast
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Bush & Diani Beach

7 days / 6 nights
from $2,190
Tsavo East game drives followed by four nights on the Indian Ocean at Diani. A favourite Kenya holiday package for families.
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The Nile falling through the gorge at Murchison Falls
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Murchison Falls

4 days / 3 nights
from $1,420
The Nile squeezed through a seven-metre gorge, launch trips to the falls base and rhino tracking at Ziwa en route.
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Ngorongoro Crater rim viewpoint in northern Tanzania
Tanzania

Ngorongoro Crater

3 days / 2 nights
from $1,320
A full crater-floor day plus Lake Manyara's tree-climbing lions, with a rim lodge overlooking the caldera.
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