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NGORONGORO CRATER
At 19km wide and with a surface of 264 sq km, Ngorongoro is one of the largest unbroken
calderas in the world that isn't a lake. Its steep, unbroken walls soar 400m to 610m and
provide the setting for an incredible natural drama as lions, elephants, buffaloes, ostriches
and plains herbivores such as wildebeest, elands, buffaloes, zebras, reedbucks graze and
stalk their way around the grasslands, swamps and acacia woodland on the crater floor.
Chances are good that you'll also see the critically endangered black rhino, and for many