Ngorongoro Crater is located 160 km from Moshono Hillside, within the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, a protected territory in Tanzania’s Arusha region and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The crater has 264 square kilometers of wetlands, forests, and grasslands, and was formed 2.5 million years ago when an active volcano’s cone collapsed inward after a massive eruption.
This world-famous safari destination is on the route between Arusha and Serengeti, offering visitors superb game viewing in a unique setting. The crater is one of the Seven Natural Wonders in Africa (along with the Red Sea, Mount Kilimanjaro, Sahara Desert, Wildebeest Migration, Nile River, and Okavango Delta), boasting a remarkable concentration of animals. Here you find wildebeests, zebras, gazelles, black rhinos, warthogs, hippos, lions, leopards, baboons, buffalos, and elephants.