Sonjo Saie

Lake Natron – a place I wanted to visit for years already. Indeed a beautiful and diverse landscape guarded by Mount Gelai. In the distance we spot some few flamingoes in the water. From the rift valley where the alkaline soda lake acts as water sink we gradually climb up the first ridge onto Sale plain. Soil colour and composition changes multiple times. At one place we stop in a canyon-like, deeply eroded setting with ochre-coloured sedimentary and clayish soil, breadcrumbed with ash and pumice pieces. Here we also find reddish stones with strangely banded, alien outer crust and amorphic white core. Must have truly been a lithological and mineralogical party place here!

The earth's crust implements a multi-layer concept here near the rift and once reaching the top of Sale plain, we find ourselves next to yet another ridge which would elevate us just another few hundred metres onto Serengeti plain. We pass a Chinese mine which probably is the reason for the good road condition here 😛. The moment we arrive in Sale, hundreds of colourful Maasai women are flooding into town from the north. Later we learn that they came in protest against unfair land distribution. Here we turn south again in direction of Malambo.Read more