Flamingos, waterfalls and the Maasai mountain of God.
A remote soda lake on the Kenyan border beneath the active volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai — the most important breeding site of the lesser flamingo.
Natron is hot, raw and beautiful. Access is by rough road, and the area is managed by local Maasai communities, who charge their own fees.
From here a back road leads through Loliondo to the northern Serengeti — one of the great adventure routes of the north.
6 daysReturn from the Serengeti via Loliondo and Lake Natron
Leaves the Serengeti by the quieter Loliondo road to reach Lake Natron and Ol Doinyo Lengai.
7 daysA full loop through the Serengeti ecosystem
A complete loop: in through the crater and Ndutu, out through Loliondo and Lake Natron.
14 daysPopular choiceThe full northern loop plus three beach nights
Lake Natron, Loliondo, the western Serengeti, Ndutu, the crater, Manyara and Tarangire, then the beach.
10 daysLake Natron, Northern Serengeti, Central Serengeti & Ngorongoro
The full Northern Circuit including Lake Natron's flamingos and the back road into the Mara River area — few operators drive this route.
Numbers vary with water levels; they breed on inaccessible mudflats, so you see them along the accessible shoreline rather than at the nests.
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