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Ngorongoro, January 12th
A spirit in my feet said 'Go', and I went...(M.B.Brady)

down the crater

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Ngorongoro's entrance
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a view of the crater


Taking the descending road to the Ngorongoro crater one experiences one of the most impressive sights in Africa, the 260 kmē floor of the largest intact caldera in the world. Apart from a few exceptions, almost every species of the African wildlife lives here.


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the rare black striped short-necked giraffe
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no we weren't exactly alone


This proved to be true for us since we managed to see just about everything on one afternoon. We climbed back the steep wall of the Ngorongoro, camped on the crater rim and slumbered to the vivid lullaby of the wilderness (only interrupted by a stinky sniffing hyena at 3am, but that's OK when you sleep 2 meters above the ground)


 

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