About Ngorongoro Conservation Area
This is the only conservation area in Tanzania which allows the multiple land use. It means that, it allows human activities to take place with the respect of tourism activities under the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority. Of about 176 km from the famous Serengeti Plain, it is mainly composed of plateaus, savannah and massifs. Covering 8,300 square kilometers, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, better known as the Garden of Eden of Africa, is one of Tanzania’s most visited wildlife parks, attracting over 600,000 tourists each year as the only place where you can spot those big five animals very easy if you were lucky.
Ngorongoro is the transit and staging area for many migratory animals, mainly mammals. These animals move seasonally between the Ngorongoro Crater, the Serengeti Plain and Kenya. During the dry season, 1.7 million wildebeests, 470,000 gazelles, 260,000 zebras and thousands of other mammals, predators and birds, fleeing the arid conditions and seeking pasture, leave the Serengeti Plain to gather in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and more particularly in the crater of the same name.