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NgoroNgoro Crater

Between Lake Manyara and Serengeti National Parks, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area is located around 190 kilometers west of Arusha. The Ngorongoro Conservation Area, which spans 8,292 square kilometers, includes the Ngorongoro Crater, the Olduvai Gorge and Ndutu, the Empakai Pit, and the Oldonyo Lengai Mountain. The Ngorongoro Conservation Area is a trailblazing experiment in multi-purpose land use, where people (the Maasai), their domesticated animals, and untamed species coexist in a secure area. Wild animals are protected in the same way as they are in National Parks.

Only untamed life is protected in the pits of Ngorongoro and Empakai, whereas the rest of the Conservation Area is shared by natural life, persons, and animals. The Maasai, the Ngorongoro’s original occupants, are pastoralists who travel far with their herds of steers, sheep, goats, and jackasses in search of pasture and water. The Maasai have recently been persuaded to work the land and augment their traditional diet of milk and meat.

Point of Interest

Gorge of Olduvai

The Ngoro Conservation Area is one of the world’s most important ancient sites; within it is the Olduvai Gorge, where Dr. Broken first discovered the skeleton of the jack of all trades, a skeleton showing their underlying phases of development. The fossils discovered there are thought to be the most precise known proof that the human species originated in Africa.

Mary Leakey discovered a series of impressions in Laetoli, a site about 45 kilometers/28 miles south of the real canyon, in 1976. These impressions were found in debris and are thought to have belonged to our ancestor Australopithecus afarensis.

Magadi Lake

The word ‘Magadi’ means ‘pop’ in Swahili, and Lake Magadi in Ngoro is an antacid hole lake. It is often populated by a significant number of lesser flamingos because the blue green flora thrives in the soluble water and serves as a food source for a huge number of flamingos. Tanzania’s Magadi is located in the northern part of the country, on the eastern side of the Ngorongoro Crater. It should not be confused with the Kenyan one, which is about 100 kilometers north of it.

Moving Sand

Those who want to make a day of it should consider visiting the Shifting Sands, which are located north of Olduvai Gorge. Under the power of the area’s unidirectional breeze, a bow shaped ridge of tiny dark debris flows constantly over the plain at a rate of roughly 55 feet/17 meters every year. The Maasai believe the debris came from Ol Doinyo Lengai Mountain, a sacred site whose name translates to “Mountain of God” in English. This notable cone-shaped mountain can be seen quite far away from Olduvai Gorge on a beautiful morning.

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