Ngorongoro Conservation Area is located on northern Tanzania containing a variety of habitats and landscapes, including grassland plains, savanna woodlands, forests, mountains, volcanic craters, lakes, rivers, and swampland. A home to the vast volcanic Crater and the big 5 (elephants, lions, leopards, buffalos, and rhinos.)
The park’s most prominent feature is Ngorongoro Crater. This highly visited African attraction is the world’s largest inactive unbroken calderas in the world. The main archaeological sites of Olduvai Gorge and Laetoil are also situated in the conservation area, in which primate fossils remains dating from 2.1 million and 3.6 million years ago, respectively.