After a few hours you’ll reach a beautiful natural swimming pool surrounded by steep rock walls – showered by cascades of spring-water and overlooked by palm trees. This walk winds up through a shady gorge (very welcome in the heat) between steep cliffs. You can walk up to the Engero Sero Waterfalls. They feed on an algae with red pigments.Īctivities in the Lake Natron area focus mainly on walks and enjoying the fascinating scenery.You can walk out across the baked mud to the shores of the great soda lake itself, in which algae and zooplankton thrive – which in turn attract the flamingos that line the lake’s shore. Due to the high presence of natron ( a mineral salt) in the lake, these birds undergo a natural process of mummification, and you can come across stoned birds washed up along the lake shores…įew predators can survive here, and the result is a safe breeding ground for the millions of flamingos who return here annually to nest. Yet the clear water surface misleads birds who happily dive in the water, after which their skin burns and they tragically die. The alkalinity levels of the lake can become so concentrated, that they almost approach that of straight ammonia, and the water is often viscous to touch.

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 area lies north east of the Ngorongoro Crater close to the border of Kenya.

Visit this area for its remoteness, spectacular scenery and the possibility to do a challenging night hike up to Oldoinyo Lengai, an active volcano.

Eat some dust on your way to remote Lake Natronĭo you like to roughen it a bit? Do you like to beat the crowds in Tanzania, enjoy some off road driving on dusty and bumpy roads? If the answer is yes - than Roadtrip Tanzania highly recommends a visit to Lake Natron, an out of space experience.

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