Friday, March 22, 2013

In Tanzania a Ngorongoro volcano

����The epitome of the East African wild animal world

Be known to allThe Masai Mara, but to see the animal, but also must go to the ngorongoro. Ngo Ron Gro crater, is a very unique nature protection area, a radius of more than 100 square kilometers on the grassland, forests, hills, lakes, marshes and other various ecological landscape, the area contains many animal species, more than 25000 large animal form the ecological balance of nature in this half closed region.

The spectacular Africa pictureThe spectacular Africa picture

This huge volcano crater central rivers, water all year round, attracted numerous animal to drink. Here is the EastAfricaThe most concentrated wild animal place, of which there are 50 kinds of large mammals, including lions, elephants, rhinos, hippos, monkeys, baboons, giraffe, warthog, hyenas and various antelope, 200 species of birds, including the ostrich, guinea fowl to wait, it is the epitome of the East African wild animal world.

The children of AfricaThe children of Africa

Drive to the gate of the park, you can see a three hundred or four hundred year old trees, into the lake Manyara National Park is a great forest, forest inside can see every kind of animal -- monkeys, deer, parrot, elephant. The jeep here was moving very slowly, slowly enough to let us use eye catching animal. On the rim of the volcano, a large number of the zebra and wildebeest grazing in the grass nearby, and the lion in the sun lazily to sleep. At dawn, when the endangered black rhino consumed with dew grass in the morning mist, they will return to the lush forests of the volcano. In the volcano mountains outside, high in the Masai people through the high slope, will their cattle and goats grazing in the lush green pastures, for centuries, they are living in the wild animal nearby environment. Annual 5, June, large zebra group and piebald herd gathered in the Serengeti plateau, six or seven rows of transverse stand, ready to travel 500 km westward migration, a spectacle that rare. In the Ngo Ron Gro volcano for a day trip, let everybody watch the leopard, zebra, hippopotamus, wildebeest, giraffe, ostrich, different colors of the birds, the harvest is still good, most unfortunately did not see black rhinos in africa.

����The world's most complete volcano

Reserve center part is the Ngo Ron Gro crater is well known in the world, it is the world's most complete volcano (volcano mouth edge preserving most complete), but also the world's sixth largest broken volcano (volcano or collapse into the volcano). Ngo Ron Gro is located in the East Branch of the Great Rift Valley, the Great Rift Valley is a fault in the earth's crust across Africa, from Mozambique to Syria. In 8000000 years, tremendous pressure in the inner earth, lava ejected from the weak fault to the ground, forming a series of volcano. But, before it is conical, and the height is two times the current. 2500000 years ago, pyramidal last outburst, put all the lava ejected, pyramidal top up into the pockets, only round hill volcano in the northwest, has become now people see "caldera". The volcano is 14.5 km in width, depth from 610 meters to 762 meters, about 18 kilometers in diameter, bottom diameter of about 16 km, covering a total area of up to 264 square kilometers, as embedded in a "big hole in the rift valley belt". The local people call it the Ngo Ron Gro, it is "big hole".

The volcano location diagramThe volcano location diagram

Ngo Ron goreau area is located in the equator, but due to the high terrain, complex terrain, reserve a year is not the four seasons, only clear dry, rain season two alternately. After mid December to early 4, the rainy season in May, the volcano in the grass green, blooming morning glory, Haougi Zu, Daisy and rare blue alfalfa flowers in this fertile soil on the volcano. When the 5 to November dry season comes, the volcano has gradually changed from green to yellow, and then into a light brown, and then become dark brown, animal are gathered in the surrounding covered swamp. All over the mountains and plains of Acacia shrubs are here to sign the landscape. Along the volcano mouth edge down, through the lush rainforests and thick vegetation, can see the volcano under the green plain covered with all kinds of beautiful flowers.

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