Friday 7 May 2010

The Ngorongoro Crater


This is one of the largest calderas in the world (20 kms wide) and one of Africa's best known wildlife-viewing areas. Within its walls are an amazing variety of animals and vegetation including grasslands, swamps, forests, salt pans and a freshwater lake.
The second pic shows about one third of the crater and below are the Sopa Lodge bungallows with the most stunning view.
Ngorongoro, Tanzania

10 comments:

SAPhotographs (Joan) said...

You are right Jose, it is stunning. What I wouldn't give to be living there!!

Regina said...

How amazing.
Thank you for sharing.

Pooch Purple Reign said...

very cool... i didnt even know this existed. wow!
~laura

Dave-CostaRicaDailyPhoto.com said...

We feel the same about the Ngorongoro Crater. We will have some more photos from there in the future on our VivalaVoyage.com site.

Lowell said...

I'm afraid I'd stand there gaping in awe and forget to take a picture! Incredible!

Cezar and Léia said...

Large seems even a small word for this, wow! Impressive!
God bless you!
Cezar

Johnny Nutcase said...

I wanna go! Very cool shots - the sky in the first one is pretty intense!

Bhushavali said...

That's a stunning location for Forest Tourism...

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Crazy Tourists said...

I am so jealous that you 've been to all this wonderful places!! I really wish I could go some day!

Julie ScottsdaleDailyPhoto.com said...

such a fabulous place to visit. we have more tanzania photos coming up over the next few weeks. it has so many photo opportunities. truly a once in a lifetime visit that no one should miss