Day Trip To Lake Magadi and Olorgesaillie Museum

Lake Magadi is one the amazing and scenic places close to nairobi,the Lake occupies the lowest level of the vast rift valley depression, approximately 100 square kilometers and its bed consists almost entirely of solid or semisolid soda; crispy caked crust, dyeing the waters vivid pink. This is the southernmost lake in the Kenyan Rift Valley, lying in a catchment of faulted volcanic rocks, its also home to many wading birds including the flamingos.

Lake Magadi is one the amazing and scenic places close to nairobi,the Lake occupies the lowest level of the vast rift valley depression, approximately 100 square kilometers and its bed consists almost entirely of solid or semisolid soda; crispy caked crust, dyeing the waters vivid pink. This is the southernmost lake in the Kenyan Rift Valley, lying in a catchment of faulted volcanic rocks, its also home to many wading birds including the flamingos.

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Stop At: Olorgesailie Pre-Historic Site, Magadi Kenya

Located along Magadi road, an hour’s drive and 70kms away from Nairobi,Olorgesailie pre-historic site is world renown as the “factory of stone tools” and the only place in the world with the largest number.

The prominence and accumulation of human tools represents actual camping places of early men and evidence that human species had a tropical origin. The site is in a lake basin that existed about 100,000 to 200’000 years ago.

Researchers, Dr. and Mrs. Leakey, started investigations on the site in 1942 where they found important evidence that concerns the habits and activities of early prehistoric peoples of the Acheuleus or “Hand axe” culture.
Olorgesailie has excellently preserved biological and cultural evidence about the evolution of man.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Lake Magadi Conservancy, Shompole Road, Magadi Kenya

Lake Magadi is well known for its wading birds, including flamingos and Pelicans. A number of wildlife is also found around the lake; this includes giraffes, antelopes, ostriches, zebras, wildebeests, hyenas.
The Lake occupies the lowest level of the vast rift valley depression, approximately 100 square kilometers and its bed consists almost entirely of solid or semisolid soda; crispy caked crust, dyeing the waters vivid pink.

Duration: 4 hours