Field Study - S1: Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro, Olduvai - January 1999

In January 1999 the S1 students from both Moshi and Arusha campuses undertook a field study trip to Lake Manyara National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Olduvai Gorge, once called the birthplace of man. The students studied the flora and fauna of Lake Manyara, the formation and geology of the Rift Valley and the unique environment of the world's largest unflooded volcanic crater.

At both Manyara and Ngorongoro's Simba site, the students camped and helped with the general chores of managing a camp site. All travel was in the school's lorry and Land Rovers.
Work at Ngorongoro included a study of the effects of tourism on the ecology of the crater and a close view of the shoreline at crater lake.
The journey to Olduvai Gorge provided a real insight into the early history of mankind.