The Ngorongoro Conservation Area is part of the Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem and has an area of 8,280 square kilometres. During the rainy season, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area includes undulating rich green hills covered in flowers, while in the protected valleys and plains, clusters of settlements are home to the red-robed Maasai ranchers, ferocious in the defence of their cherished livestock and traditions. Forests, rivers, lakes, and marshes, as well as the immovable shadows of Africa's oldest mountains and volcanic craters.
The area has extinct volcanoes which include Lemagrut, Sadiman, Oldeani, Olmoti, Sirua, Lolmalasin, and Empakaai, which are always popular with hikers, and the Ngorongoro Crater, which is the world's largest inactive, intact, and unfilled volcanic caldera and a World Heritage Site.
Olduvai Gorge, a significant archaeological site, is also located near the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Serengeti.
