Tourist offices Ngorongoro Crater

All these taxes are to be paid in advance (no cash or CB at the gate), at the Barclay Bank branch in Arusha or Mwanza (the entrance town on the Lake Victoria side), or at the CRDB in these two towns and in Karatu, either in CB Visa or MasterCard, or in dollars. The bank will provide you with a receipt and a temporary "NCA smart card" to which the fees are credited, which you will need to "beep" on entering and leaving the park. For the Crater Fee Service, the card must be paged either at the Lodware Gate or at the administration office next to the Ngorongoro Crater Lodge.