Overlooking Natron, the 2,960m-high Ol Doinyo Lengai – the Maasai ‘Mountain of God’ – is one of East Africa’s most active volcanos, having erupted several times since the turn of the millennium.
Particularly beautiful in the soft light of dawn and dusk, this remote and little-developed corner of Maasailand also boasts one of the crispest and most mesmerising night skies imaginable.
The lake itself is a thrillingly primordial apparition, enclosed by a fragile crust of desiccated salt and sodden volcanic ash, and reed-lined swamps where the sulphuric springs that sustain its caustic waters bubble to the surface. The geological violence that formed the Great Rift Valley is on graphic display at Lake Natron.
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