Walking Safari

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Walking Safari to N'gorongoro Crater and Oldono Lengai

Over our half-term break in October we traveled North to N'gorongoro Crater National Park for a walking safari. We traveled with six of our friends from IST. The trip was great - hot and dusty and short on water, but we saw amazing wildlife and scenery.

Part of our journey took us through the Rift Valley - the place where our first human-like ancestors evolved. I remember standing in Rome at the ruins, trying to fathom all of the history that had taken place at that spot. After this trip, I must say that the Roman Ruins pale in comparison to standing in the Rift Valley and contemplating the beginning of human kind.

Africa's Great Rift Valley is a 6,000-mile crack (fissure) in the earth's crust, stretching from Lebanon to Mozambique. One of its most dramatic sections slices through East Africa, dividing Kenya into two segments. Geologists know that the Rift Valley was formed by violent subterranean forces that tore apart the earth's crust. These forces caused huge chunks of the crust to sink between parallel fault lines and force up molten rock in volcanic eruptions. Evidence that this process, called rifting, is still in progress comes from the many active and semi-active volcanoes, located along the Rift. Evidence of volcanic activity along the rift is provided by the presence of numerous boiling hot springs.

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