Leaving Arusha to head to the coast, a few kilometres after the city of Moshi, the road is skirted by the Pare Mountains and, next to these, by the Usambara Mountains. They both are part of the Eastern Arc Mountains. The highest Pare’s peak rises to 2,463 meters and this mountain range offers interesting birdwatching…
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Olduvai Gorge is between the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the Serengeti National Park there is an outstanding natural beauty, highly recommended: the so-called Olduvai Gorge, a ravine about 100 m deep and 48 km long. Since 1930s, Louis Leakey and his wife Mary, both Kenyan anthropologists of English origin, have discovered in Olduvai’s layers hominin…
The way to reach the lake is not very easy and inaccessible during the rain seasons. You start from the Mto Wa Mbu village and walk 5 hours through a rough road that leads to the lake. Just few meters before, you can notice Ol Doinyo Lengai, an active volcano that produces the so-called white…
In addition to its height (it is the highest African mountain), Mount Kilimanjaro is the most famous too. It’s in the Great Rift Valley and it is a stratovolcano composed of three distinct dormant craters: Kibo, the highest (5,895 metres), Mawenzi and Shira. The environment you walk through before reaching the summit is various: The…