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Ngorongoro Nuances. Two thousand feet below, the crater's floor opens up. The steep walls covered in forest guard the 265 square kilometer caldera. In it live the lion, the cheetah, the rhino, the laughing hyena, hippos wallowing in the muddy rivers, pink flamingoes lacing the salt lake and numerous other birds. No wonder, the Ngorongoro Crater is called the eigth wonder of the world. Until Ngorongoro became a conservation area joining the Serengeti, the Maasai roamed the crater floor and before them, stone age man had set up home here. In 1892 Oscar Baumann took the credit of being the first European to see the Crater. After that it was open territory. When the Germans took over Tanzania, Ngorongoro became the winter highlands of the ruling reich. Ngorongoro can be seen from space. There are no giraffes in the crater because their long spindly legs find the desend into the crater too steep and besides there aren't too many acacia tree to forage on.


- Magical Serengeti. Serengeti is so huge and diverse that you will need to visit it again and again to learn its moods. More than ten thousand square kilometres in area, it became a household name after the famous Grizmeks conducted the first aerial study of the migrating wildebeest and wrote the masterpiece, "Serengeti Shall Not Die." Serengeti is a word derived from the Maa language, the lingo of the Maasai. It means 'endless plains.' Its space fills the senses and life from the tiniest ant to the tallest giraffe fill the space. Serengeti is the ancestral home of the modern wildebeest which has trekked the lands for over a million years as shown by the fossil evidence. The western side of Serengeti almost touches Lake Victoria, the largest lake in Africa (second largest in the world). The central part is full of kopjes or rock inselbergs under whose shade the lions sleep and the rock hyraxes play. The land abounds with trees where the mighty eagles and vultures scan the earth for prey and the leopard hides.


Selous Game Reserve. Nothing compares to Selous. It is 50,000 sq.kms of pure unadultrated Africa. The land changes from Savannah grasslands, to scrubland, to rock inselbergs and through it all flows the mighty Rufiji with its subordinates, the Kilombereo and Luwegu, dominating the Selous and forming the largest catchment area in East Africa. This is one of the few places where you can watch wildlife sailing on the river. The river gives much to the park - water for the massive wildlife like the elephants, crocodiles, hippos, the unique Nyasa white-faced wildebeest, lions and the waterbucks and warthogs. Because of its huge reserves of water, plantlife abounds in the reserve and it is one of the biggest botanical gardens in the wild. There are over 350 species of birds making it an ornithologists paradise, that's if you don't confuse the flying squirrel for a bird. It is no wonder that Selous is a World Heritage Site. During the long rains between February and May, the park is inaccessible and most of the tourist camps close. The best time to visit is during the cool season between June and October and during the dry spell in January and February.


Mt. KILIMANJARO. Johann Rebmann, a German missionary was the first European to see the mighty mountain in 1848 from almost two hundred kilometres away on his way to the interior. It was a wisp of a wind which blew the clouds away from the snow-capped peaks of Kilimanjaro which caught the eye of Rebmann. Kilimajaro is Africa's highest mountain and the tallest free standing mountain in the world. It sits regal on the boundaries of Tanzania and Kenya. Although it is in Tanzania, Kenya gets the best view. It is not a hard mountain to climb although you must be quite physically fit and the thin air can be treacherous. But the sheer beauty of the mountain urges one on and scaling to the top at 19,340 ft can be a challenge. Now dormant, Kilimanjaro has three volcanic peaks, Shira, Mawenzi and the ice and snow-capped Kibo. The Vegetation ranges from lush forests to alpine moorlands and mountain lakes and rivers.


Gorgeous Olduvai. Olduvai Gorge, a huge crack in the earth stretches 55 kms, a treasure trove of fossilized evidence of life on earth. In 1911, a German named Kattwinkel looking for butterflies stumbled into the gorge and realised that it was a prehistoric arena. Work started and it was in Berlin that the late Louis Leakey read about the fossils of Olduvai that made him start his own expedition back into time. In 1959, Mary Leakey his wife discovered the Nutcraker man dating 1.75 million years old and in 1979 discovered the trail of the ancient people. The fine volcanic soil covers everything in a film of dust. The two room museum stands by the crack. Fossilised evidence shows the remains of almost 150 mammals which are now extinct besides other birds, reptiles and insects..