Description
At 610 meters (2000 feet) deep, and covering an expanse that measures 260 square kilometers (100 square miles), this world famous crater is a natural enclose that is perfectly suited to host wildlife in numbers that are guaranteed to impress you. In fact, approximately 25,000 large animals are known to live in the crater, including the very rare black rhinoceros. More commonly seen are African buffalo, hippopotamuses, wildebeest, Grant’s zebra, common eland, and Grant’s and Thomson’s Gazelles.
In the southwest area of the crater lies Lake Magadi, which is usually decorated with thousands of mainly lesser flamingoes.
Perhaps more exciting for safari goers is the fact that the crater proudly boasts one of the densest populations of Masai lions; in 2001 the recorded number of lions were 62.
