En route, you see many Masai villages, termite mounds, gazelle, giraffe, zebra, baboons, bee boxes, and birds such as vultures, ostrich, starlings and Cory Bustards. You drive via Engaruka Town towards Lake Natron on a partly bumpy and dusty road. Our driver-guide will pick you up from your hotel in Arusha and you will drive out to Lake Natron. Take the road transfer from the Kilimanjaro international airport to your lodge will take about 1 hour, so sit back and enjoy the ride through the city’s sub-urban arriving at your lodge for a well-deserved overnight. Upon your arrival at Kilimanjaro airport, our representative will meet you and drive you to your hotel for the first evening in Tanzania. Lake Natron tour will include activities like visiting the waterfall, a short tour to the lake natron, and enjoying Masai culture while en route to Serengeti National park via Lobo gate. Oldonyo Lengai the recent erupted volcanic mountain and Ngorongoro highland slopes. This lake is formed on the basin of the great rift valley on the slopes of Mt. Tanzania Lake Natron safaris:- Lake Natron is famous as one of the breeding sites for the flamingos in East Africa. Lake Natron is quite shallow, less than three meters deep, and varies in width depending on its water level, which changes due to high levels of evaporation, leaving high levels of salt and other minerals. The 4 Days Lake Natron Tour in Tanzania starts in the eastern branch of Africa’s Great Rift Valley. Ruaha National Park | Enclose Africa Safaris.There are a number of campgrounds near the lake, which is also the base for climbing Ol Doinyo Lengai. This has allowed the lake to concentrate into a caustic alkaline brineWalks around the lake and to the streams and waterfalls along the nearby escarpment make for a fantastic adventure off the beaten track. The lavas have significant amounts of carbonate but very low calcium and magnesium levels.
The surrounding bedrock is composed of alkaline, sodium-dominated trachyte lavas that were laid down during the Pleistocene period. The alkalinity of the lake can reach a pH of greater than 12. The lake and its ecosystem provides a source of livelihoods to the local communities.High levels of evaporation have left behind natron (sodium carbonate decahydrate) and trona (sodium sesquicarbonate dihydrate). It is the most important breeding site for Lesser Flamingos in the world.East Africa has 1.5-2.5 million Lesser Flamingos, representing three-quarters of the world population and most of them are hatched at Lake Natron.įood is plentiful, nesting sites abound – and above all, the lake is isolated and undisturbed.
Nearest towns to Lake Natron are Arusha in Tanzania and Magadi in Kenya. Lake Natron is found in the northern part of Tanzania. A soda lake at the base of the active Ol Donyo Lengai volcano, the area around Lake Natron is often described as having a desolate and almost lunar beauty.
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