Gongali Community Tour
Location: near Karatu, took around 3 hours by car(one-way)
The center was electrified via mini-grid renewable solar energy power generation (1kw), and
expands electrification to the community including kindergarten, TV room and water center.
Visiting households using cow-dung biogas system instead of using firewood for cooking.This has
positive effects especially on women because it saves energy and time to collect firewood and
prevents eyes and respiratory disease
from poisonous firewood smoke.
NM-AIST -> Gongali Community -> Ngorongoro Crater
The crater is the flagship tourism feature for the Ngorongoro Conservation
Area. It is a large, unbroken, un-flooded caldera, formed when a giant volcano exploded and
collapsed some three million years ago. The Ngorongoro crater
sinks to a depth of 610 metres, with a base area covering 260 square kilometres. The height of
the original volcano must have ranged between 4,500 to 5,800 metres high. Apart from the
maincaldera, Ngorongoro also has two other
volcanic craters: Olmoti and mpakai, the former famous for its stunning waterfalls, and the
latter holding a deep lake and lush, green walls. On the leeward of the Ngorongoro highlands
protrudes the iconic Oldonyo Lengai, an
active volcano and Tanzania's third highest peak after Kilimanjaro and Meru. Known to local
people as the Mountain of God, Mount Lengai's last major eruption occurred in 2007. At the
mountain's foot is Lake Natron, East Africa's
major breeding ground for flamingoes.
