Matkakokemukset - Nähtävyyksiä Nakurussa

Menengai Crater ja maisemat

Mistyli    19.01.2009    Nakuruan nähtävyydet    Nakuru

Ota taksi ja matkusta Nakurun keskustasta muutama kilometri upeisiin maisemiin. Jo itse matka on aikamoinen kokemus; autolla ajaminen jyrkkää rinnettä ylöspäin valtavien monttujen ja kumpareiden siivittämänä on..noh, aika mielenkiintoista. Taksimatka noin 1000 KsH eli noin 10 euroa /taksi hotellilta joten halvemmallakin varmasti pääsee.

"Menengai Crater, one of the largest calderas of the world and the largest of Kenya, is a extinct volcano of the Central Rift Valley (it has been volcanically active until relatively recently as fresh lava flow could be observed in 1991). The crater, covering an area of 90 sq. km, is 12 km in diameter and 485 m deep and its lavas are trachytes and obsidian. At the summit of the crater (2,278 m - 7,474 ft.), which is easily accessible by car, there is a signpost dressed by Rotary Club of Nakuru showing the directions and distances to several towns in the world."

"The locals have named the place "kirima kia ngoma" (Devil's place) as they claim it is under the control of evil spirits.No one knows how the crater came to be called Menengai but the locals say the name is a Maasai word meaning a place of corpses. It is believed the name means the place of the dead in the Maasai because many of them died here in the 19th century when they fought among themselves

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