Tourists activities in Lake Natron
The lake’s high salinity and alkalinity doesn’t faze the evolutionary prepared flamingos, though, seeing them is one of the Tourists activities in Lake Natron and is higher in salinity means more food: Spirulina, cyanobacteria that they filter from the mud with their specialized down curved bills. Away from threats, it’s the flamingos’ place to party.
Lake Natron is home to the world’s largest Pink flamingos, where large groups of strutting birds can be seen annually in a mesmerizing romantic dance, heads moving side to side, after which flamingos pair up and nest in the middle of the shallow lake. “It’s the greatest ornithological spectacle on Earth, which nature has given to us for free.
Volcano Climbing
You will climb Mount Oldonyo Lengai in the midnight as one of the best Tourists activities. It will take you 5-7hrs up and down. Oldoinyo Lengai” means “The Mountain of God” in the Maasai language. It is located in northern Tanzania lying just south of Lake Natron in the Rift Valley, in the heart of Maasai country, and locally regarded as a sacred mountain. Looking north from it’s summit crater, the hot barren salt flats of Lake Natron stretch into the distance. To the south stretch the crater Highlands and the Ngorongoro Game Reserve. The eastern horizons dominated by Kilimanjaro and to the west the forested escarpments and hills comprising the western slopes of the Rift Valley. Every seven years Lengai erupts and plumes of smoke billow out of the crater.
It is possible to walk across the crater floor. The ascent of Oldoinyo Lengai is demanding on account of the day time heat, lack of water, steep and unsuitable slopes of ash and crumbly rocks and considerable height gain. Normally you can start ascending to summit early in the morning and reach to summit at sunrise. Short and a warm jacket are suitable for ascent, also long trousers are good as the summit before dawn can be cold. Access route from the North West allows an early descent to be made from the summit in the morning shadow.
Cultural tours
One of the Tourists activities you do not have to miss on your bucket list of visiting Lake Natron is cultural tours to Massai village, drawing together a host of activities around Engaresero and Lake Natron, this Maasai- run cultural tourism program offers guided walking trips to the lake, hot springs, a nearby waterfall or a set of recently discovered 120,000-year-old human footprints preserved in volcanic ash; biking tours; village visits; ‘ethno-botanical’ tours; and trekking to the summit of Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano.