![]() ![]() Dinner & overnight Lake Natron Camp (full board).Īfter breakfast you depart to the bottom of the rift valley and start your trek to Sanjan. The staff are on hand to make you stay as adventurous or as relaxing as you want. We have a natural pool at camp and fish that love to give you a free fish pedicure! Just the thing to pamper your feet before you set off on a hike up the rift valley tomorrow. Dinner & overnight Lake Natron Camp (full board). Lake Natron has a number of activities that are very easily combined with dawn walks and sundowners and in the middle of the day there is the nearby Ngare Sero gorge that you can walk to and options of long hikes to the source or shorter hikes to waterfalls. Hiking the Gregorian Rift Valley, Sanjan Gorge, Gol, Olduvai Gorge, witnessing untouched Maasai culture, being immersed into places people have never been before, stunning views, the migration (if timed right), off the beaten track, going back in time from old footsteps to new. You can time this expedition with the migration in the short grass plains, or append a migration experience post / pre trek. ![]() Olduvai gorge is known as the ‘Cradle of Mankind’ and this trekking expedition courses routes either to or from this area incorporating the history of mankind, geology and landscapes spanning 250 million years. This is a 5 day itinerary with 2 nights spent at Lake Natron Camp. If you think this is for you read further! Each camp location and design is being targeted at guests that are looking for an off the beaten track experience, entirely respectful of the environment, and yet just enough comfort to ensure a superlative well balanced adventure. It's about a five-hour drive from Lake Natron to reach the safari camps of the Serengeti's Loliondo area.This is a trek back through millennia of evolution from the relatively recent hominid footprints right by our Lake Natron Camp, all the way to Olduvai, commonly known as “one of the most important paleoanthropological sites in the world”, and home to evidence of our earliest ancestors. To finally reach Lake Natron, you drive around this imposing volcano – perhaps keeping your eyes on its smoking crown. These are soon dwarfed by the sight of Kerimasi Crater and, finally, the active Oldoinyo Lengai – whose name means “mountain of god" in the Maasai language. ![]() ![]() To the north of this track stands a handful of great mounds – the remains of extinct volcanoes. Only the occasional Maasai homestead now dots the landscape. Drive deeper, and green vegetation gives way to a sparse, dusty landscape. You will soon focus on the scenery: looking around, the views are spectacular. It is hot but with the Rift Valley rising up on your left hand side, the landscape is increasingly dramatic. The drive to Lake Natron takes around three hours from Mto wa Mbu (beside Lake Manyara). It is also some of the most dramatic scenery we have seen in Tanzania and the journey here is worth it for the views alone. But for those who do choose to visit Natron, they are rewarded with an area that is far off the beaten track and sees relatively little tourism. This area is hot and often very dry and dusty – so certainly for the more intrepid traveller. This spectacular area sits just north east of the Ngorongoro Crater and forms part of Africa's immense Great Rift Valley. ![]()
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