Lake Eyasi
Lake Eyasi is located about 75 km from the Ngorongoro Crater and 100 km from the Serengeti. It’s an excellent add-on to a safari in either or both of those areas, as well as a great destination in its own right!
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Explore the Lake’s Shores
Lake Eyasi is well worth visiting. Local eco-lodge Ziwani provides opportunities for birding, hiking, and fascinating cultural experiences!
The lake is situated about 75 kilometres south-west of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and 100 kilometres south of the Serengeti National Park. This area is known as the Serengeti Plateau. Eyasi occupies its base, on the floor of the spectacular Great Rift Valley.
Lake Eyasi Trips
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14 Days Young Adults Northern Tanzania Adventure Safari
12 Days Ultimate Northern Tanzania Discovery Safari
10 Days Tanzania Safari and Cultural Experience
Activities
Our recommended Lake Eyasi lodge, Ziwani, offers birding, hiking, and some fascinating cultural experiences. If you’re a keen birder, make sure you bring your binoculars!
Eyasi’s birdlife and marine life
Eyasi boasts an exciting variety of birdlife! Among the area’s highlights are flamingos, great white pelican, grey-headed gull, yellow-billed stork, pied avocet, and African spoonbill. The two main fish species in the lake are lungfish and catfish.
History
The age of Lake Eyasi is estimated at 65 million years, just after dinosaurs became extinct. The feature formed due to the opening of a rift on the valley floor. For over 50,000 years, hunter–gatherers known as the Hadza or Hadzabe have lived around the lake’s shores. To the south-east, specifically the swampy Yaeda Valley, there are the Datooga, a pastoralist people.
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