The Ngorongoro conservation area, in the north of Tanzania, is a popular tourist destination. The conservation area, which is a part of the Serengeti ecosystem, was set up as a multi-land use region where animals and the semi-nomadic Maasai can coexist. The Maasai roam their livestock from one area to another in search of water and pasture.
Natural resource protection, indigenous community security, and ecotourism were the primary motivations for creating the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in 1959. Its high levels of biodiversity earned it UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 1979, and in 2010 it was designated as a cultural conservation area.
Wildlife such as giraffes, elephants, buffaloes, hippos, zebras, wildebeest, rhinos, lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, golden jackals, spotted hyenas, and bipedal ungulates call the Ngorongoro conservation area home. The region spans 8,292 square kilometres and is made up of grass plains and acacia woodlands.
1. Ngorongoro Crater
Ngorongoro Crater is the park's main attraction and the world's largest empty volcanic caldera, measuring 2000 feet deep, 19 kilometres wide, and 264 square kilometres. The crater was formed many years ago when a volcano exploded and collapsed. Its stunning sight provides visitors with excellent views of the crater, animals, and bird species.
2. Lake Magadi
A trip to Tanzania's natural attractions will leave a lasting impression. Lake Magadi is a tiny, blue, alkaline lake within the Ngorongoro Crater surrounded by hundreds of long-legged pink flamingos. The majority of the flamingos are actually smaller flamingos, easily identified by their dark red beaks and diet of blue-green spirulina algae. The bigger flamingos, on the other hand, have pink bills that are slightly curved and black at the tip to help them sift for crustaceans in the rich dirt at the bottom of the water.
During the dry season, the lake evaporates, leaving behind crystalline salt pans that jackals, hyenas, and other animals use as licks.
3. Laetoli and Olduvai Gorge
Sedimentary rock in Laetoli is estimated to be 3.7 million years old. It contains the footprints of our genetic predecessors and their relatives.
Olduvai Gorge, located in northern Tanzania, is the site of critical archaeological digs and a small paleoanthropological museum where you may view evolution-related fossils. However, we are their offspring, and by visiting Africa on our "mother tour," we are returning to our roots.
4. Birds.
The conservation area is one of the best places in Tanzania to go birdwatching because it is home to more than 500 bird species, including endemic, migratory, and forest birds. White-eyed slaty flycatcher, kori bustards, Livingstone turacos, ostriches, secretaries, crowned cranes, black kites, black-winged lapwings, double-collared sunbirds, greater flamingos, Namaqua doves, Schalow's wheatears, rosy-throated long-claws, and a host of other species of birds can all be found in.
5. Moving Sands
The Moving Sands is a black dune of shifting sand hundreds of metres long and nine metres high that cleverly creeps slowly over the plains at a rate of 15 metres per year.
6. The Gol Mountain
The Gol Mountains rise to 915m from the vast short-grass plains far north of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. The mountains are a collection of ridges that scientists describe as among the region's earliest geological structures because they formed millions of years before the Ngorongoro Crater.
Thousands of herbivores can be found in the Gol Mountains' surroundings during the rainy season, which runs from March to early June. However, during the following dry months, the vegetation turns dusty brown.
7. Lake Ndutu and Lake Masek
On the western edge of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Lake Ndutu and Lake Masek are near the border of Serengeti National Park. Water collects in small basins between the two lakes from the surrounding, slightly higher-altitude locations. Both lakes' water is quite salty, and most of it evaporates during the dry season.
Since the location is surrounded by short-grass plains and woodlands, which offer plenty of cover and food, it serves as a staging place and departure point for the migration.
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