Olduvai Gorge - Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
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Olduvai Gorge Serengeti National Park
This deep gorge, measuring 30 miles long and 295 feet deep, features exposed deposits of fossil fauna, hominid remains and stone tools from 2,1000,000 to 15,000 years ago.
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Travel blogs from Olduvai Gorge:
- ... stop for $60, being South African and growing up with Xhosas I decided I didn't need to do this Then its Olduvai Gorge, a unique canyon 50km long that has provided so much info on ancient life due to its geology which evolved over 2 million ...
- ... Simba our driver took us 'off road' through the fields to a placed called Olduvai Gorge ...
- ... got there, however, we had a long, bumpy drive through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and past Oldupai Gorge (known to us as ' Olduvai Gorge ', it was named by the Maasai after a plant that grows there - the name was misheard when the ...
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- Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
- Dodoma, Tanzania
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- Olduvai Gorge by Spoonball from a blog titled I bless the rains down in Africa
- Olduvai Gorge by Adisyl from a blog titled Day 31 (Serengeti National Park)
- Olduvai Gorge by Janemacg from a blog titled The Tool Man and a visitor for dinner
Olduvai Gorge - Serengeti
Explore Africa to find the Olduvai Gorge also known as the Cradle of Mankind is a ravine and archaeological site in the Great Rift Valley, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, Africa.
East-Africa-2: Serengeti, Olduvai, Ngorongoro and Zanzibar
The film is about the 2nd part of the AGRA organised Discovery of East-Africa Trip and includes wonderful tours in the Serengeti National Park and in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
Between the 2 parks we visited the cradle of the mankind: the Olduvai Gorge.
At the end of our trip we spent some days (me: weeks) on Zanzibar among its Swahili historical-cultural and nature beauties.
Special merit should be given to Janos Lerner for his guidance.
Kubu Kubu Tented Camp Serengeti National Park Tour; Tanzania
Kubu Kubu Tented Camp is a Serengeti National Park lodge. Explore one of the top luxury Africa resorts in this tour video.
The Kubu Kubu Tented Camp is strategically located to ensure that all areas of the Serengeti are within reach of guests, including legendary locations like the famous Maasai kopjes, the Museum of Olduvai Gorge, Seronera and the Grumeti River.
The Kati Kati Tented Camp Serengeti operated by Tanganyika Wilderness Camps has been designed with a modern African decorative style that creates a fresh and bright atmosphere, but very cozy and with the right amount of luxury. Guests can attend to the show of the Great Migration from the comfort of their tents.
We absolutely loved the Kubu Kubu Tented Lodge. It’s the perfect lodge for newlyweds looking to do an African safari honeymoon.
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Tanzania: The Serengeti must survive | Global 3000
The Serengeti National Park is in danger. Climate change, poaching and a constantly growing population in the immediate surrounding area are threatening to disrupt animal migration and destroy the whole eco-system. Millions of animals move about the savannah in search of food and water, but climate change has altered the rainy and dry seasons. That affects many animals' food sources. We look at how the Frankfurt Zoological Society is working together with park authorities to save the animals' habitat.
Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania: The Museum and view
This short video shows you what to expect on a stop in the Olduvai Gorge when on a safari holiday in Tanzania. On your way between the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro you pass the Olduvai Gorge, find site of the oldest human remains ever discovered. A museum is situated with a great view out over the gorge itself and there is a small museum, with information boards and casts of the main finds. It makes a nice break in the drive. Full details see the Tanzania safari holiday section at RealAfrica.co.uk
Tanzania: Olduvai Gorge
La garganta de Olduvai o de Oldupai constituye uno de los lugares más importantes en el este de África en relación a yacimientos paleontológicos y arqueológicos prehistóricos olduvayenses y achelenses. Los barrancos de este cañón también son conocidos oficiosamente con el sobrenombre de cuna de la humanidad.
Está ubicada al Este de la llanura del Serengueti en el norte de Tanzania, dentro de lo que es el Gran Valle del Rift, una gran depresión que comprende unos 2900 km, donde la tectónica y la erosión han dejado al descubierto sedimentos de una antigüedad comprendida entre algo más de 2 Ma hasta hace unos 15 000 años (Plioceno superior - Pleistoceno).
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Oldupai Gorge Museum Ngorongoro Crater Tanzania August 2013
ANGALIA MCHANGA UNAOTEMBEA WA OLDUVAI
Oldupai Gorge
The Human evolution
Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
Travelling to the Serengeti you will pass by Olduvai Gorge, do stop and take a look at where our oldest ancestors came from. T museum is well worth a visit.
If you need the toilet, i can only hope that in the time this was filmed they have built new ones :) On our trip it was a massive hole in the ground with planks across it. I won't try and discribe the smell :(
VHS film.
#Olduvai Gorge: Cradle of Humanity #Serengeti #Tanzania- #Zohar African Safaris
Wildlife Safari in Northern Tanzania -- December 2013
Trip-of-a-lifetime experience arranged by Betchart Expeditions (Cupertino, CA, USA) to celebrate a couple's 50th wedding anniversary. Seven adults and two teenagers spent 11 days of December 2013 in northern Tanzania visiting Arusha National Park, Tarangire National Park, a traditional Masai village, Ngorongoro Crater, Olduvai Gorge, Serengeti National Park, and Lake Manyara National Park (in that order). Trip highlights include a leopard hunting monkeys during the daytime, several up-close encounters with lions (including playful cubs, feeding on a buffalo kill, and two mating pairs), and thousands of migrating wildebeests. betchartexpeditions.com
African Safari on the Serengeti Plains
This is a video of a recent trip we took to Africa with Overseas Adventure Travels with my wife, Sue, and two of our best friends Bob and Leslie. This was a 12 day photo Safari in Tanzania, Africa where we visited three national parks. As you can see in this video we saw wildlife up close. One of the highlights was the vistas from floating high over the Serengeti in a hot air balloon. We visited Arusha City, Tarangire National Park, Oldupai Gorge were Mary and Louis Leakey discovered early hominids (Australopithecus boisel), the birthplace of man. We spent 4 days and nights in luxuries tents in the middle of the Serengeti National Park. This is where one night a full grown black mane lion visited us at our camp site. That certainly stirred up us and the natives. We also explored the insides of the Ngorongoro Crater where the last remaining Black Rhinos are still wild. As you can see in this video it was a very thrilling trip that we highly recommend.
Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Video taken at Olduvai Gorge in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania.
The Olduvai song, Tanzania 2013
The Olduvai Gorge Song, performed by Nick Toth, was recorded at the Olduvai Gorge Museum, Tanzania. In the audience was the Masai chief of the Olduvai region. Music and lyrics by Nick Toth and Kathy Schick.
The Olduvai Song lyrics
1
Drive from Arusha
Past lake Manyara
Climb the escarpment
Straight through Keratu
Ngorongoro Highlands
To Olduvai
Cradle of Humankind
2
The great Serengeti
Three hundred-foot canyon
Time stacked in strata
Two million year history
Creatures now long gone
At Olduvai
Cradle of humankind
CHORUS
Over and over and over again
Lake levels rose and the lake levels fell
Over and over and over again
Volcanoes erupted and blanketed ash
Olduvai Gorge
I can hear the fossils calling
Olduvai Gorge
I can see the stone tools sparkling
3
Shovel-tusked elephants
Saber-toothed lions
Giant horned buffalo
Monstrous crocodiles
Extinct forms of hominid
At Olduvai
Cradle of Humankind
4
Places we once knew
Stone sources we once used
Fears that we once shared
Dreams that we once dared
In our African homeland
At Olduvai
Cradle of Humankind
CHORUS
Over and over and over again
Lake levels rose and the lake levels fell
Over and over and over again
Volcanoes erupted and blanketed ash
Over and over and over again
The animals died and became fossil bone
Over and over and over again
The industries changed that were made out of stone
Olduvai Gorge
I can hear the fossils calling
Olduvai Gorge
I can see the stone tools sparkling
Tanzania - Olduvai Gorge Archaeological Field School
The transition from the earliest human culture, the Oldowan, to the more sophisticated Acheulean, is one of the most significant events in the evolution of human technology. Despite the importance of this technological transition, little is known about the biological and cultural evolutionary mechanisms underlying it. Traditionally, this major cultural shift has been linked with the emergence of Homo erectus, a species defined by its much larger brain and body size, while the transformation from Oldowan simple core-and-flake technology to Acheulean handaxes was viewed as a steady progression rather than a revolutionary change. However, these assumptions are not grounded in the current available evidence, but rooted in cultural-history paradigms that are only now being tested. The Olduvai Gorge Archaeology Field School will collect fresh data on the emergence of the Acheulean at Olduvai and contribute to ongoing research being conducted by an international multidisciplinary team of researchers, the Olduvai Geochronology and Archaeology Project (OGAP).
Tanzania-Serengeti National Park (part 1)
...viaggio fotografico nel meraviglioso Parco Nazionale del Serengeti in Tanzania...
Fotografie di Samuele Arrigoni
Discover Serengeti
It was 1913 and great stretches of Africa were still unknown to the white man when Stewart Edward White, an American hunter, set out from Nairobi. Pushing south, he recorded: We walked for miles over burnt out country... Then I saw the green trees of the river, walked two miles more and found myself in paradise.
He had found Serengeti. In the years since White's excursion under the high noble arc of the cloudless African sky, Serengeti has come to symbolize paradise to many of us. The Maasai, who had grazed their cattle on the vast grassy plains for millennia had always thought so. To them it was Siringitu - the place where the land moves on forever.
The Serengeti region encompasses the Serengeti National Park itself, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Maswa Game Reserve, the Loliondo, Grumeti and Ikorongo Controlled Areas and the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. Over 90,000 tourists visit the Park each year.
Two World Heritage Sites and two Biosphere Reserves have been established within the 30,000 km² region. It's unique ecosystem has inspired writers from Ernest Hemingway to Peter Mattheissen, filmakers like Hugo von Lawick and Alan Root as well as numerous photographers and scientists - many of which have put their works at our disposal to create this website.
The Serengeti ecosystem is one of the oldest on earth. The essential features of climate, vegetation and fauna have barely changed in the past million years. Early man himself made an appearance in Olduvai Gorge about two million years ago. Some patterns of life, death, adaptation and migration are as old as the hills themselves.
It is the migration for which Serengeti is perhaps most famous. Over a million wildebeest and about 200,000 zebras flow south from the northern hills to the southern plains for the short rains every October and November, and then swirl west and north after the long rains in April, May and June. So strong is the ancient instinct to move that no drought, gorge or crocodile infested river can hold them back.
The Wildebeest travel through a variety of parks, reserves and protected areas and through a variety of habitat. Join us to explore the different forms of vegetation and landscapes of the Serengeti ecosystem and meet some of their most fascinating inhabitants.
Welcome to the Serengeti.
Lota Melamari
Director General
Tanazania National Parks
TRIP TO SERENGETI - AFRICA
The Serengeti ecosystem is a geographical region in Africa. It is located in north Tanzania and extends to south-western Kenya between latitudes 1 and 3 S and longitudes 34 and 36 E. It spans some 30,000 km2 (12,000 sq mi).
The Serengeti hosts the largest mammal migration in the world, which is one of the ten natural travel wonders of the world.[1]
The region contains several national parks and game reserves. Serengeti is derived from the Maasai language, Maa; specifically, Serengit meaning Endless Plains.[2][3]
Approximately 70 larger mammal and some 500 avifauna species are found there. This high diversity in terms of species is a function of diverse habitats ranging from riverine forests, swamps, kopjes, grasslands and woodlands.[4] Blue Wildebeests, gazelles, zebras and buffalos are some of the commonly found large mammals in the region.
Currently there is controversy surrounding a proposed road that is to be built through the Serengeti in Tanzania.
Great Migration
Around October, nearly two million herbivores travel from the northern hills toward the southern plains, crossing the Mara River, in pursuit of the rains. In April, they then return to the north through the west, once again crossing the Mara River. This phenomenon is sometimes called the Circular Migration.
Some 250,000 wildebeest die during the journey from Tanzania to Maasai Mara Reserve in lower Kenya, a total of 800 kilometres (500 mi). Death is usually from thirst, hunger, exhaustion, or predation.[1] The migration is chronicled in the 1994 documentary film, Africa: The Serengeti. In early 2007 J.Michael Fay had found another large migration in Southern Sudan, of about 800,000 kob and tiang, which now rivals the migration in the Serengeti.
[edit] Ecology
Kopjes, or rock outcroppings, on the Serengeti plain.
River and the Serengeti plains.
Maasailand has East Africa's finest game areas.[8] The governments of Tanzania and Kenya maintain a number of Protected Areas: parks, conservation areas, game reserves, etc. that give legal protection to over 80% of the Serengeti.[4]
Ol Doinyo Lengai, the only active volcano in the area of the Serengeti, is the only volcano that still ejects carbonatite lavas. This material, upon exposure to air, changes from black to white and resembles washing soda. A thick layer of ash can turn into a calcium rich hardpan as tough as cement after being rained upon. Tree roots cannot penetrate this layer, and the essentially treeless plains of the Serengeti, which lie to the west and down wind of Ol Doinyo Lengai, are the result.[9]
The southeastern area lies in the rain shadow of the Ngorongoro highlands and is composed of shortgrass treeless plains with abundant small dicots. Soils are high in nutrients, overlying a shallow calcareous hardpan. A gradient of soil depth northwestward across the plains results in changes in the herbaceous community and taller grass. Some 70 km (43 mi) west, Acacia woodlands appear suddenly and stretch west to Lake Victoria and north to the Loita Plains, north of the Maasai Mara National Reserve. The 16 Acacia species vary over this range, their distribution determined by edaphic conditions and soil depth. Near Lake Victoria there are flood plains developed from ancient lakebeds. In the far northwest, Acacia woodlands are replaced by broadleaved Terminalia-Combretum woodlands, determined by a change in geology.
This area has the highest rainfall in the system and forms a refuge for the migrating ungulates at the end of the dry season.[10][11]
Altitudes in the Serengeti range from 920 to 1,850 metres (3,020 to 6,070 ft) with mean temperatures varying from 15 to 25 degrees Celsius. Although the climate is usually warm and dry, rainfall occurs in two rainy seasons: March to May, and a shorter season in October and November. Rainfall amounts vary from a low of 508 mm (20 in) in the lee of the Ngorongoro Highlands to a high of 1,200 mm (47 in) on the shores of Lake Victoria.[12] The highlands, which are considerably cooler than the plains and are covered by montane forest, mark the eastern border of the basin in which the Serengeti lies.
The Serengeti plain is punctuated by granite outcroppings known as kopjes. These outcroppings are the result of volcanic activity. Kopjies provide a microhabitat for non-plains wildlife. One kopje likely to be seen by visitors to the Serengeti is the Simba Kopje (Lion Kopje). The Serengeti was used as inspiration for the animated Disney feature film The Lion King and subsequent theatrical production.
The area is also home to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, which contains the Olduvai Gorge, where some of the oldest hominid fossils are found, as well as the Ngorongoro Crater.