Natural features

Ngorongoro Crater

Tanzania Arusha Ngorongoro

Ngorongoro Crater
Photo: Daniel Msirikale, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The world's largest intact volcanic caldera, 600 m deep and 20 km wide, a UNESCO site, home to about 25,000 animals including black rhinos, lions and elephants.


Vehicles may only stay in the crater for a set time. Go down at first light. It's between Arusha and the Serengeti.

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