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Discover the best top things to do in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania including Nice Adventure Safari, Sungura Safaris, Empakaai Crater, Safari Guides Travel and Tours, Ndutu Lake, Olduvai Gorge, The Engare Sero Footprint Site, Olduvai Gorge Museum, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Masai Tribe.
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1. Nice Adventure Safari
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5.0 based on 12 reviews
NICE ADVENTURE is the Tanzanian owned Tour Operator with the head offices on the ground of Mikumi Town with branch office in Dar es salaam. Our ground handling experience makes this company the most competent in the tourism industry and I, Nice Pickett Miranda and my key team of staff are immersed with the knowledge of flora and fauna.
2. Sungura Safaris
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5.0 based on 2 reviews
Sungura Safaris, we strive at every turn to redefine your notion of what is possible on a vacation. We do mountain climbing, cultural and unbeatable customized tours. Our clients satisfaction is our prior with insider-access opportunities unlike any you have experienced before.None of our journey is complete without that extra, unexpected "and" that makes your experience unique and unforgettable.
3. Empakaai Crater
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4.5 based on 114 reviews
Reviewed By jla100155 - Saint Louis, United States
My husband, 25 year old daughter and me hiked down to the crater. We were accompanied by an armed ranger because sometimes there are wildlife encounters along the trail. This was described a a walk. I would call it a medium to rigorous hike. We are fortunately fit enough to do this, but I would caution anyone that this is not just a casual walk. The reward at the bottom with thousands of flamingos was definitely worth it, but just be prepared for the hike, not a walk.
4. Safari Guides Travel and Tours
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4.5 based on 3 reviews
Safari Guides Travel and Tours Limited is an official registered Travel and Tours Operations Company based in Tanzania. We aim to provide quality service and supporting Local community for the Sustainable Conservation
5. Ndutu Lake
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4.5 based on 11 reviews
Reviewed By stonestacker52
We were in Ndutu during the height of the migration. The wildebeests were probably 70% done calving the third week of February. The herds were huge with animals across the land solid in a 360 degree circle. We saw 6 cheetah, just saw the end of a hunt, lions, and best of all 3 different honey badgers.
6. Olduvai Gorge
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4.0 based on 793 reviews
This is one of the most important archaeological site on earth. The geological strata exposed in the gorge reveal a remarkable record of animal and human evolution from about 2 million until 15,000 years ago. Among the significant finds from Olduvai are the range of stone tool types, the thousands of animal fossils- both extinct and extant species- and fossil bones of hominids (pre- Homo sapiens) and early Homo sapiens. The hominid fossils show the evolution of humankind over a 2 million year time span and provide a sense of our recent emergence in the world as modern humans.
Reviewed By Gudmantz - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
The Olduvai Gorge or Oldupai Gorge in Tanzania is one of the most important paleoanthropological sites in the world; it has proven invaluable in furthering understanding of early human evolution. A steep-sided ravine in the Great Rift Valley that stretches across East Africa, it is about 48 km (30 mi) long, and is located in the eastern Serengeti Plains within the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in the Arusha Region, about 45 kilometres (28 miles) from Laetoli, another important archaeological site of early human occupation. The British/Kenyan paleoanthropologist-archeologist team of Mary and Louis Leakey established and developed the excavation and research programs at Olduvai Gorge which achieved great advances of human knowledge and world-renowned status.
7. The Engare Sero Footprint Site
8. Olduvai Gorge Museum
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4.0 based on 567 reviews
One of the biggest onsite museum in Africa located at the excavation site of Olduvai Gorge and near Laetoli Footprints site. The museum exhibits the earliest evidence found in Olduvai Gorge and Laetoli Footprints that holds earliest evidence of the existence of human ancestors. The museum also showcases other findings from elsewhere in Africa.
Reviewed By Skier_Alan_T
I was delighted to find this excellent, small museum telling to story of human evolution and highlighting discoveries from the Olduvai Gorge area. Beautiful round shaped museum with dioramas, fossils and interpretations of major periods of human evolution. Fascinating to see our early ancestors footprints preserved in ancient volcanic ash fields with a diorama depiction of how it was made. Don't forget to see the small detached gift shop with fossil bones of giraffes, hippos, rhinos, water buffalos and pictures of Louis and Mary Leeky.
9. Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Reviewed By 580beths - Richmond, United States
The Ngorongoro Crater is volcanic in origin though the volcano is extinct. There are hundreds if not thousands of African animals living 300 feet down inside it in the lush. green, fertile, and open plains. Our guide, John Latare, with Wild Frontiers Travel, knew all about the inhabitants of the crater, where to find them, how to get around, and the most beautiful vantage points. The crater is so stunning and the animals so plentiful and breathtaking, that all I could think of was that this could be the biblical Garden of Eden. It was mystical and transcended the whole idea of “travel.” If you are in the Tanzania Serengeti area, this place is a must see. It should be on any traveler’s bucket list. There are good lodges on the rim of the crater. Very convenient to allow you as much time as possible down in the crater. We spent about three hours. I would have been able to never leave and just behold the beauty every day for the rest of my life.
10. Masai Tribe
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4.0 based on 377 reviews
