Lake Turkana Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
alkaline lake on the border of Ethiopia and Kenya
About Lake Turkana
Lake Turkanaisan oasis but in the strictly metaphorical sense. Though the climate is unforgivably harsh, hominids have been living here for millions of years. The hardiest among us remain today, along with hippos, crocodiles, and hundreds of bird species. Kindly turtles thrive... as do a multitude of venomous snakes, among them the cobra, the puff adder, and the ever-pleasant carpet viper. But what would you expect in a land such as this? Volcanic cones rise from the lake, dark and foreboding and occasionally erupting but mostly as dead or dormant as everything but the lake itself. And of course they do. Perhaps this is your storybook after all, it seems written. Sibiloi National Parksits on the northeastern shore. Known as the "Cradle of Mankind", it has revealed hominid fossils dating ba
Lake Turkana Travel Guide Sections
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