Ol Doinyo Lengai is an active volcano in northern Tanzania. It consists of a volcanic cone with two craters, the northern of which has erupted during historical time. Uniquely for volcanoes on Earth, it has erupted natrocarbonatite, an unusually low temperature and highly fluid type of magma. Eruptions in 2007–2008 affected the surrounding region.
Ol Doinyo Lengai
Summit of Ol Doinyo Lengai in February, 2006
White surface of solidified lava flows at Ol Doinyo Lengai, August 2001
Ol Doinyo Lengai erupting in March 2008
The Maasai are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting northern, central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, near the African Great Lakes region. The Maasai speak the Maa language, a member of the Nilotic language family that is related to the Dinka, Kalenjin and Nuer languages. Except for some elders living in rural areas, most Maasai people speak the official languages of Kenya and Tanzania, Swahili and English.
A gathering of Maasais in 2005
Maasai man
Maasai warriors in German East Africa, c. 1906–1918
Maasai people and huts with enkang barrier in foreground - eastern Serengeti, 2006