Another reason to visit this area is to bypass the main route between Lake Manyara and the Serengeti, through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. As a result, Expert Africa does not recommend this walk to any of our travellers. However, note that this is a very tough climb on an active volcano, and high risks are involved. Such a climb would usually start at midnight, taking about six hours to reach the top by sunrise. In theory, travellers could also attempt to climb Ol Doinyo Lengai. This involves some gentle scrambling and waist-high wading, before reaching a beautiful natural swimming pool, surrounded by steep rock walls – showered by cascades of spring water and overlooked by palm trees.
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Celai Bomba Kitumbeine 0 10 km 0 10 miles You might be lucky enough to spot a gerenuk around Lake Natron Another walk leads up through a deep, rocky gorge to the Ngare Sero Waterfalls.Lake Natron Tented Camp Ol Doinyo Lengai Empakaai Crater K E N Y A Sambu Lake Natron Shompole.Piaya NGORONGORO CONSERVATION AREA Olmoti Crater Ngorongoro Crater Engare Sero.Look back at Ol Doinyo Lengai – a mesmerising active volcano that makes a distinctive silhouette between the rolling hills and the escarpment of the Great Rift Valley. Walk out across the baked mud to the shores of the great soda lake itself, where algae and zooplankton attract the flamingos that often line the lake’s shore. This region is often hot, dry and dusty, but intrepid travellers who reach Natron are rewarded by an area with little tourism and some of the most dramatic scenery in Tanzania. Nestled between rolling volcanic hills and deep craters, Lake Natron sits at the lowest point of the Rift Valley – 600m above sea level – and is probably the world’s most caustic body of water. This is a harsh, wild and fascinating region.LAKE NATRON LAKE NATRON Lake Natron is part of Africa’s immense Great Rift Valley, and a spectacular area just north-east of the Ngorongoro Crater. Young children herd goats, elders in bright red togas sit under acacias and the morani (warriors) watch guard, spears in their hands, intricate beading around their necks and ochre in their hair.
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The wildlife lives side by side with the Maasai and scattered throughout the surrounding plains are numerous Maasai manyattas (villages), crooked sticks and cracked clay houses arranged around cattle kraals under the hot sun.
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Natron is also the only known breeding ground for East Africa's millions of lesser flamingos which cover the lake between August and October. There is good game viewing and birding in this harsh landscape with dry country species such as gerenuk, lesser kudu and oryx a speciality. Lying in a beautifully scenic area below the Rift Valley escarpment, Lake Natron has such a high concentration of sodium, that the water is often viscous to the touch. Further north still is the spectacular soda lake of Natron. There are rugged mountains where vultures soar and baboon bark, dusty gorges where the Maasai bring their cattle to drink and endless grassy plains. North of the Ngorongoro Crater, and far from the beaten track, you will find the Maasai's Mountain of God - Ol Doinyo L'Engai.Īn active carbonate volcano, it is a focal point for the Maasai, whose land stretches out for hundreds of miles from it.