Driving from Serengeti to Ngorongoro Crater
Finding the mysterious shifting sands, exploring the cradle of mankind, and ending at the most unbelievable location for a New Years Eve we will never forget. This was all done as we shifted our focus and location from the vast plains of the Serengeti to the collapsed volcanic crater known as Ngorongoro. Again it was tough to leave the people behind at our remote tent camp in the Serengeti. But there was more of Tanzania that I wanted the Dillons to see so off we went. Magnetic sand The enigmatic shifting sands There were two choices for our travel between the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater. We could fly into the Lake Manyara airstrip and take an hour and half drive on good roads to get to our lodge, or we could do an all day drive heading out of the southeastern Serengeti, and hitting up shifting sands and the Olduvai (Oldupai) gorge on our way to the Crater. Mary thought the family would be inspired by seeing where the Leakey's discovered ...