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Africa Guide - Tanzania
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Top 10 reasons to visit Tanzania in Africa
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Tell us about your African experience in
Tanzania - write a Tanzania travel story or review
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Olduvai Gorge
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Olduvai Gorge is known as Oldupaie by the Masaai people. It is located on the northern side of Tanzania, and is accessible when you are driving to Serengeti National Park. Olduvai Gorge is of great archeological importance because of our evolutionary evidence found in this gorge dating millions of years back. This 48 km gorge valley was made famous by the Leakey family. In 1931, Dr. Louis Leakey discovered stone tools at the gorge where he concluded that this site could lead to further discoveries. After about 28 years of ongoing excavations, Mary Leakey found the skull Australopithecus -Zinjanthropus boisei - the nutcracker man who lived in the lower Pleistocene Age around 1,750,000 BC. Today, there is museum at the Gorge where visitors are given a short lecture on the history of the gorge, its evolutionary process and evidence. After the lecture, you will take a tour of Olduvai Gorge Museum.
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