The climb lasts about 3 hours, just like the descent. Your Maasai guide will have plenty of time to explain his culture, local rituals and traditions.Change of scene guaranteed. They call these houses “temporary bomas”. You will meet warriors with their animals but also families who live up there temporarily. There, you will begin the ascent to reach the place called “Leparakashi”, place of transhumance of the semi nomadic Maasai, who graze their herds in these pastures of altitude during the dry season. You will leave around 6am with the sunrise, to get to the foot of the mountains of the rift valley. Worst Weather: April and May can be very wet and the road in bad conditions. Best Weather: July and August as it is cooler. Low Season: April and May – peak of the wet season.
Tree roots cannot penetrate this layer, and the essentially treeless plains of the Serengeti, which lie to the west and down wind of Ol Doinyo Lengai, are the result.īest Time to Go: September through to December for wonderful displays of flamingos and best weather to climbing Oldonyo Lengai. This lava ash can turn into a calcium rich hardpan as tough as cement after being rained upon. The mountain is the only active volcano on planet that erupts carbonatite lava. Ol Doinyo Lengai, the sacred Maasai Mountain of God, provides a striking reminder that the earth’s forces are still very active in this area. These microorganisms turn surface of the lake into an alkaline salt encrusted fusion of color. The beautiful deep reds of the open water of the lake, and pink and orange colors of the shallow parts of the lake are due to the salt loving microorganisms that thrive in the spring water. The soda lakes alkaline nature and caustic environment protects the important breeding ground for the birds by preventing predators trying to reach their nests. The breeding site to 2.5 million Lesser Flamingo, Lake Natron is the birds only breeding ground in East Africa. Here the dry, desolate and hauntingly beautiful landscape and flamingoes are the attraction.
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