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Lake Natron is a caustic soda lake near the Kenyan border, its shallows stained red and orange by salt loving microbes. It is the single most important breeding site in the world for lesser flamingo, which gather here in the hundreds of thousands.
Behind it rises Ol Doinyo Lengai, the Mountain of God to the Maasai and the only active volcano on Earth that erupts natrocarbonatite lava. Fit travelers can climb it overnight to reach the crater by sunrise.
Highlights
- The worlds main lesser flamingo breeding ground
- Overnight ascent of an active volcano
- Waterfalls in the gorges behind the lake
- Stark, cinematic Rift Valley scenery
Climate
Hot and arid, one of the harshest corners of the northern circuit.