Ngorongoro Travel Blogs

Habari! Napapenda hapa! (Hello, I love it here!) As you can see I am already half  Masai! I bought a Swahili phrasebook by lonely planet and I’ve started to learn how to say the basic stuff. Fun stuff!   Today I woke up at the right time and I took pictures when the sun came out. So I…

  After a filling four-star breakfast we motored off the rim and 580 meters into Ngorongoro Crater. It's the second largest crater in the world with a diameter of 12 miles and, with no breaks in its wall, contains 25-30,000 animals year round. We were all amazed by the numbers and variety of …

In September 2006, a group of friends went to Tanzania on a 3 day safari. In the three days we went to Ngorongoro Crater, Tarangire and Lake Maynara national parks. We hired a 4WD for our group, through World Expeditions which was the budget choice booking through the Australian branch rather than …

Got up 6:30am, still feeling pretty tired. Had eggs, baked beans, sweet potato, cornflakes and a banana for breakfast and left camp at 8am, heading back to Ngorongoro. We saw loads of animals again in Serengeti, including a male lion, a lioness with cubs, hyenas, and even two lionesses just lying o…

Ngorongoro Crater, the heart of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, is an oval crater which varies in diameter from 21 km in its east-west axis and 17.7 km in its north-south axis. The height of the rim varies between 2,280m and 2,440m above sea level. The floor stands at about 1,722m at …

Om 3.00 uur schrok ik wakker. Dit keer sliep ik dus niet door het brullen van de leeuw heen. Jeetje wat een herrie, hoewel het wel even duurde voordat ik in de gaten had wat het was. Deze moest wel heel dichtbij zitten, want het kwam luid en duidelijk door. Nadat we eindelijk weer in slaap waren m…

Tanzania is amazing and quite preserved go there and enjoy what the nature offer to us

There is some kind of feeling - very intense and powerful that happens inside you when you are in the presence of lions - in "their" house.  The Ngorongoro crater is their house.  Of course, you feel safe as you sit in your plush 4x4 Jeep and peer out the open roof down at the lions.…

Great trip! Seen a lot, so beautiful!

Tanzania 2005

one week for the first time in central Africa, four safaris - un unforgettable experience! now I have the African sickness "mal d'Africa" and I must go back... one week in Zanzibar, relaxing in a resort village, meeting nice friendly people from all over Italy, great snorkelling and, for the first time again,swimming with dolphins!

Flew into Nairobi, drove over to the Masai Mara and spent a couple of nights there before driving through Uganda to the border of the Congo. Crossed over and went to the Virunga National Park to see the mountain gorillas. Drove back to Nairobi, on to Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti and finished up in Zanzibar.

Brian and I quit our jobs in Holland and left Amsterdam in October 2005. We spent several months backpacking from Ethiopia down to South Africa then up to Zambia. Heres just a few highlights of our trip.

Trip through southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, one month

Safari