Tour guides in Ngorongoro Crater

Things to do in Ngorongoro Crater

Places and experiences rather than companies. Each one carries the thing you would otherwise find out by turning up.

• The crater floor

  Wildlife

  Six hundred metres down, roughly 25,000 large animals inside twenty kilometres of caldera wall.

  The descent is charged per vehicle, not per person, and the permit is for six hours — so a full car costs each of you less, and the clock starts at the gate rather than at the bottom.

  Half a dayPaid

• Olduvai Gorge

  History

  Where the Leakeys found the fossils that moved human origins to East Africa.

  It sits on the road between Ngorongoro and the Serengeti, so it costs an hour rather than a day if you time it as a stop rather than a detour.

  2 hoursPaid

• Empakaai Crater walk

  Landscape

  A steep descent to a soda lake inside a smaller, greener caldera.

  One of the few places in the conservation area you may walk, with a ranger. On a clear morning Ol Doinyo Lengai and Kilimanjaro are both visible from the rim.

  5 hoursPaid