Nairobi - Ngorogoro Crater (340km) (Stage 24) From Nairobi in Kenya leaving on the 9th May 2004 via Narok then Lollondo, into the Ngorogoro Conservation Area in Tanzania
Ngorogoro Conservation AreaNgorongoro is not a national park but a conservation area, where the land is managed for the benefit of the wildlife and plants; the Maasai people also live in the area with their cattle. The Ngorogoro highlands has dramatic volcanic scenery, from the rain-forested eastern slopes above the rift escarpment, through the peaks and craters of the central region and then down into the arid semi-desert areas on the western Serengeti side. Visitors may walk and hike here, but not in crater itself and always with one of the rangers. The Ngorongoro Crater is in not a crater but a caldera - the remains of a volcano which has completely collapsed at a time when the molten magma inside it died back during a period of inactivity. The volcano of Ngorongoro would have been higher than Mount Kilimanjaro before its collapse; it is the largest unflooded caldera in the world. The crater hosts much wildlife; there is savannah, bush land, forests and lakes, inhabited by elephants, lions, hippos, wildebeest and other creatures, including flamingos at a soda lake. The rallye stayed for three days leaving on the 13th May for Mount Kilimanjaro.
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