Famous for its elephant population, tree-climbing lions, rift valley escarpment and a lake full of stunning birdlife, Manyara offers diverse wildlife and landscapes – and natural hot springs in the South. The Manyara airstrip is also your closest access to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area – a vast region of highland plains, savanna, woodlands, and forests. It is also home to the largest unflooded, unbroken volcanic caldera in the world, the Ngorongoro Crater. This UNESCO heritage site is one that has to be experienced up close to understand its magnitude, a 20km across, 600 meter deep, 3-million-year-old crater that some say may have been taller than Mt Kilimanjaro prior to its eruption.