Olduvai Gorge Monument & Museum

Wow! What a Treat to Stop here! My Safari Driver Guide told me we were stopping at a Museum on the way to the Serengeti National Park. I was thinking to myself a Museum? What kind of a museum is out in the middle of nowhere? I’m not a big museum person! We’ll blow my socks off! This museum is the Cradle of Humanity! The Leakeys, Lucy , Early archaeological digs still going on! I got a private tour from The Head of the Museum. A super knowledgeable and pleasant fellow! So Glad we stopped here! It was Great! I love archaeology, been reading about it my whole life! What a surprise to find it here in Tanzania!

This is a must see for people interested in the evolution of humans. It's only a 5 minute drive from the main Serengeti road. Even if you only stay for half an hour you will get to see skulls and skeletons from the archaeological digs here.

Nice little pitstop and bathroom break with some cool history and statue!

Nice pitstop with bathrooms and an explanation of Olduvai Gorge.

If you like history I do recommend this place

Great monument enroute Serengeti. Need 30 mns to go thru the history. Neat and well maintained washrooms

Very nice monument to highlight discovery of human race ancestors

Historical place

monument to highlight discovery of human race ancestors

Lucy in the skies with diamonds 💎

Best historical for evaluation of human

It is what it is

Spectacular place with rich history

Nice place

Great

The Olduvai Gorge or Oldupai Gorge in Tanzania is one of the most important paleoanthropological localities in the world; the many sites exposed by the gorge have proven invaluable in furthering understanding of early human evolution. A steep-sided ravine in the Great Rift Valley that stretches across East Africa, it is about 48 km long, and is located in the eastern Serengeti Plains within the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in the Olbalbal ward located in Ngorongoro District of Arusha Region, about 45 kilometres (28 miles) from Laetoli, another important archaeological locality of early human occupation. The British/Kenyan paleoanthropologist-archeologist team of Mary and Louis Leakey established excavation and research programs at Olduvai Gorge that achieved great advances in human knowledge and are world-renowned. The site is registered as one of the National Historic Sites of Tanzania.

We had our lunch here and the washroom was absolutely clean and we met a few Masai men’s here.

Olduvai Gorge au Oldupai Gorge nchini Tanzania ni mojawapo ya maeneo muhimu ya paleoanthropolojia duniani; maeneo mengi yaliyofichuliwa na korongo yamethibitika kuwa ya thamani sana katika kuendeleza uelewa wa mageuzi ya awali ya binadamu. Korongo lenye mwinuko katika Bonde Kuu la Ufa linaloenea Afrika Mashariki, lina urefu wa takriban kilomita 48, linapatikana Mashariki mwa Nyanda za Serengeti ndani ya Hifadhi ya Ngorongoro katika kata ya Olbalbal iliyopo Wilaya ya Ngorongoro Mkoa wa Arusha, takriban 45. kilomita (maili 28) kutoka Laetoli, eneo lingine muhimu la kiakiolojia la kazi ya awali ya binadamu. Timu ya Waingereza/Kenya paleoanthropologist-akiolojia ya Mary na Louis Leakey ilianzisha mipango ya uchimbaji na utafiti katika Olduvai Gorge ambayo ilipata maendeleo makubwa katika ujuzi wa binadamu na ni maarufu duniani. Tovuti imesajiliwa kama moja ya Maeneo ya Kihistoria ya Kitaifa ya Tanzania. Tulipata chakula chetu cha mchana hapa na chumba cha kuosha kilikuwa safi kabisa na tulikutana na wanaume wachache wa Kimasai hapa.

세렝기티 가는 길에 잠시 쉬었다가 갈 수 있습니다. 주변경관도 좋아서 차에서 내려서 사진찍기도 좋습니다. 인류의 기원이 이곳에서 시작된것같네요.

Quando ci si arriva si percepisce di essere ai confini del mondo e l’atmosfera è densa di storia.
Area di passaggio per arrivare al Serengeti passando dal Ngorongoro. Suggerisco assolutamente una pausa

Spændende og tankevækkende sted. Det er menneskehedens vugge.

Die Wiege der Menschheit!
Hier geht es nicht darum Original-Skelette oder Werkzeuge zu sehen, geschweige denn eine Führung durch einen Wissenschaftler zu erhalten, sondern lediglich darum den Blick auf den Graben und die Gesteinsschichten zu werfen, wo verschiedene Paläoanthropologen, insbesondere Louis und Mary Leakey diverse Grabungen und Funde gemacht haben. Die Skelette, z. B. vom Australopithecus und Lucy (in the sky with diamonds) sind natürlich Nachbildungen. Die junge einheimische Dame, die uns mit viel Engagement alles erläuterte, ist sehr stolz hier arbeiten zu dürfen. Und der Blick zur Grabungsstätte, der Wiege der Menschheit, bleibt unvergessen. Nur darum geht es. Und es ist eine tolle Abwechslung auf der Fahrt über Sandpisten vom Ngorongoro durch die Serengeti.
Erlebnisdatum: November 2022