Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Ngorongoro Conservation Area is located in the Great Rift Valley, a gigantic fracture of the earth's crust, filled with volcanoes, mountains, plains, lakes, forests and archeological sites. This is the land of the Maasai and their cattle and of huge herds of wildlife. The bottom of the crater, which is dotted with watering holes, shelters almost 30 000 animals in an area naturally enclosed by the slopes of the volcano. Walking safaris, accompanied by donkeys, are conducted to Maasai country. The palaeontology museum at Olduvai Gorge houses the skeleton of Australopithecus Boisei's, an ancient ancestor of man. The area can be visited allyear round, but April is the rainy season.