Ngorongoro is located in northern Tanzania, and lies at the western edge of the Rift Valley, on the border with Kenya .  The picturesque and varied landscape, where steep cliffs Ngorongoro crater walls are combined with spacious valleys covered with grass and bushes .  The reserve, which spreads around the Ngorongoro Crater is huge, it covers an area of ​​about 6500 square meters . km, its importance for the region of Africa has increased even more after he received the official status of the buffer zone and the International Biosphere Reserve .  Ngorongoro has two main objectives - conservation of natural resources in the region, as well as protecting the interests and traditional way of life of the local Maasai tribe, which still graze here herds of cattle, sheep and goats .  The heart of the reserve is a crater, or caldera, Ngorongoro - the remains of just one of the many extinct volcanoes, located in this area .  Ngorongoro caldera offers the most picturesque cluster of big game in Africa; it is also one of the largest calderas in the world: its diameter is 14, 5 km depth from 610 to 762 m, and the total area of ​​264 sq.m. . km .   I can complement the description