Best Things to Do in Ngorongoro Crater

• • Watching a pride of lions cross the grasslands within eyeshot of a herd of Thomson’s gazelles.
  • Braking for a crossing of elephants, the world’s largest land-based animals, as they guide their young across the crater floor.
  • Glimpsing an elephant in tree cover beside the road as your safari vehicle descends through the mists from the crater rim.
  • Toasting the day’s game drive with a “sundowner” from the deck of the lodge’s grill/bar.
  • Picnicking at the hippo pool, with a lunch spread out on the hood of your safari vehicle.
  • Seeing thousands of pink flamingos take flight above the salty banks of Lake Magadi.
  • Spotting a leopard in a forest grove, asleep on a tree limb.
  • Encountering a Masai tribesman dressed in traditional red cloak herding his cattle within the crater walls.
  • Surveying the barren landscape and exposed geological layers of the Great Rift Valley at Olduvai Gorge, where Louis and Mary Leakey discovered the fossilized remains of mankind’s early ancestors.
  • Tracing the movements of a cheetah as it pauses, turns, stretches and weaves its way through the undulating savannah grasses in search of prey.