Menengai

Menengai Crater - View from the rim of the caldera

The Menengai Crater, ( Maa: Place of corpses ) is the sixth largest volcanic crater in the world at a height of 2278 m. It is located in Kenya near Nakuru.

Actually, it is in the dormant volcano is a caldera. Again and again, small clouds of smoke can be observed. The caldera has a diameter of 12 km. From the crater rim, which can be reached on foot, the slope plunges almost 500 meters deep to the confusing crater floor, a nature reserve today, down. The name of the crater has its origin crashed in a bloody battle between two Maasai clans in 1854, in which hundreds of attackers thrown back down the slope to death.

The visitor has a magnificent view from the top over the country.