Destination guide · Northern circuit
Olduvai Gorge
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Why come
What Olduvai Gorge is known for
Where the Leakeys worked
Decades of excavation, and some of the most important hominin finds ever made.
The Laetoli footprints
Around three and a half million years old, and already walking upright.
On the way
It sits on the road between Ngorongoro and the Serengeti, so it costs you an hour, not a day.
A ravine cut through volcanic ash on the road between Ngorongoro and the Serengeti, and one of the most important archaeological sites in the world. The Leakeys worked here for decades; the footprints found at nearby Laetoli are around three and a half million years old and belong to something that already walked upright.
Best time: any — it is on the way. How long: an hour or two at the museum and the viewpoint, folded into a transfer day.
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