The next day starts as early as 6 am, providing you with the perfect opportunity to enjoy a morning game drive across the Ngorongoro Crater, spotting animals that come out to enjoy the cool weather conditions as rays of the rising sun sprawl across the golden grasslands.
After your morning game drive, you’ll stop at a beautiful little picnic spot in the heart of the park to enjoy your lunch and watch nearby wildlife. Afterwards, you’ll jump back in your vehicle and head back out to see more animals throughout the park.
Covering about 260 square km, the Ngorongoro Crater is home to over 20,000 animals and is often considered a small zoo because of its dense concentration of wildlife. Lions, cheetahs, elephants, hippos, buffaloes, gazelles, warthogs, wildebeests, zebras and many species of birds can be seen up close but the park’s biggest attraction is the elusive black rhino, which is particularly rare, even for the region.
Your day will come to a beautiful close with an evening drive back to Karatu where you eat dinner and stay the night at Eileen’s Tree Lodge, Marera Valley Lodge, or Jambo Lodge.