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Tanzania, The Northern circuit - Ngorongoro
NGORONGORO CONSERVATION AREA
- It is multiple land use, whereby human interests (Maasai) share with wildlife this beautiful land.
- Ngorongoro is the land of active and inactive volcanoes, Craters (Ngorongoro Crater, Olmoti & Empaki), mountain highlands and forests. It is also land for archaeological sites (Oldupai & Laetoli), swamps shifting sands and lakes.
NGORONGORO CRATER
- It is the largest unbroken, inactive caldera in the world.
- The crater floor is about 23km WIDE AND is the heaven of wildlife. Over 30,000 large animals mainly, buffalo, wildebeest, eland, gazelles, warthogs and elephants reside on the floor. Ngorongoro crater holds the highest population of predators in the world.
- Black rhinos the most endangered species in Africa can also be seen here. Plus a great diversity of birds and thousands of flamingoes in Lake Magadi.
OLDUPAI GORGE
- "A Cradle of man-kind". It is an archaeological site where Dr. Louis Leaky discovered the skull of early man "Zinjathropus" in July 1959.
- The skull was aged 1.75 million years OLD.
- There is a small museum where fossils, settlement remains and stone artifacts are stored for visitors.
- Lecture tours are offered.
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Pictures by: Lis Bølling & Jens Rasmussen
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