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SERENGETI

The Serengeti National Park is home for some of the year to the largest concentration of migrating plains game in the world. Estimates indicate that there are up to 2 million wildebeest, 1 million gazelle, and 200,000 zebra, as well as large numbers of elephant and a wonderful selection of birdlife. Lions are easily seen and in large numbers - there are around two thousand within the park. The terrain varies from treeless plains to stretches of savannah dotted with flat-topped acacia trees.

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area is as breathtaking for its landscapes as it is attractive for its animals. The park is located between the Serengeti and Lake Manyara (see map) The Conservation Area itself covers over 8,000 sq. km of grassland, but its most famous feature is the Ngorongoro Crater (left), the largest unbroken caldera in the world, about 18 km. in diameter with walls 600 m. high. The Crater acts like a great natural zoo, with a high resident animal population. Only a few species migrate over its steep walls (2,300 m.), and over 20,000 animals can often be found on the Crater floor.  The N.C.A. also contains Olduvai Gorge; an archaeological site that has yielded the earliest known remains of humankind and so earned the epithet 'Cradle of Mankind`.

All the lodges are built high on the crater rim and afford amazing views over and into the crater - the perfect setting for a well deserved sundowner.

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