Ngoragora Crater

BEAUTIFUL!!! The crater lies 180km from Arusha and borders onto the Serengeti. I opted not to do the three day Safari ... firstly I want to do the Serengeti when they have the Migrations and secondly I wanted to rest totally on the second and third days of my three days rest in Arusha.

The crater is from a 2.5 million year old eruption ... the ash falling in a northerly direction scorched and created the plains of the Serengeti. The crater itself is 20km in diameter and several hundred meters deep. A large lake lies in the base covering about 30% of the floor.
There are no major trees and you see animals in pockets here and there as you decent the rough and bouncy roads to the base.

We got to see elephants (only males in the base of the crater ... the females are all up on the rim), buffalo, Gnu, Impala, warthogs, nine lions ... trying to hunt, hippo ... and more. Also far too many Game vehicles ... racing far too fast all over the place.

A thoroughly enjoyable and beautiful trip ... but give me Etosha or Kruger ANY day!!

The trip was slightly tarnished by the drivers really dangerous driving ... four wheel drive Toyota minibus ... fast, overtaking on solid lines, over blind rises, etc and all that with poor brakes ... I did politely explain to him later (after a brief outburst during the drive as he tried some major stunt) that it was not appreciated.