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Of course they went with one of the world's most fascinating and most spectacular destinations to promote, so the task is made much easier and as all involved reported, a pleasure.
It is always one of the most exciting times to visit the Conservation Area.
The first rains are falling on the areas burnt and within three days there are not only grass shoots but a vivid green covering on what was blackened ground a short time before.
With the grass of course, comes not only the migration but impala, all the gazelles and vast flocks of rain storks.
Terrapin have been flushed out of their mud-packs and frogs are beginning to give voice to the new season of plenty.
A season to share.
The Conservator of Ngorongoro and his entire staff extend to you the seasons greetings and welcome you to enjoy it with them here in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

Every season brings surprises and this year's is the fact that the first rains are beginning at the foothills of Ngorongoro Highlands and The Oldupai Gorge, usually one of the driest areas in the rain shadow of the highest peaks of The Crater rim.
Wildebeests, gazelles and zebras have come down from the north of The Serengeti as far as Naabi Hill and are flooding Hidden Valley on their daily search for drinking water.
The towering smokestacks of fires sweeping across the plains and hungrily feeding in the woodlands, mingle with darkened horizons of gathering rain.
Even the promise of rain brings the migration back to the favoured short grass plains where the calving takes place in February each year.
This December, The Conservation Area sent a delegation to China .
The Conservator of Ngorongoro, Mr E. Chausi headed the group, which went specifically to generate interest in the Chinese market and met with great success.

November - December 2004

As the first showers gather strength and localised falls make a patchwork of Ngorongoro, the Maasai begin to slowly move their herds from traditional dry grazing areas to the new grass on the slopes of The Northern Highlands.