Kenya - East African Rift Valley

It is 4 am in the morning and I am up again to continue my journey around the world. This time,I am taking a flight to Kenya to visit the East African Rift Valley. I boarded the plane at about 5 and will reach Kenya at about 9 in the morning.


I reached Kenya international airport of Jomo Kenyatta and I took a mini bus down to the East African Rift Valley. I was perspiring profusely as the weather is scorching hot. In addition, the bus has no air-con!!!!( U kidding me?) Nevertheless, I reached the East African Rift Valley in about an hour's time. The view of it is amazing!! It seems that the places I have visited are all so beautiful in their own ways.


The East African Rift Valley is form due to the divergent movements of the African Plate and the Arabian Plate.  As both crusts diverge away from each other, tensional force from opposite ends of the crust pulls the rock within the area away from each other. The tensional forces causes normal faults or cracks to appear. As the crust on either side of the normal faults pull apart, the crust in between sinks to form a rift valley. The area within the East African Rift Valley, also known as the East African Rift Zone, includes a number of active as well as dormant volcanoes. Some examples are Mount Kenya, Mount Karisimbi, Mount Meru, etc. 


I took some pictures of the rift valley and began heading back to the airport. I got a plane to catch to Japan in the next morning.


Credits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Rift
            Geography Textbook!


Some pictures that i took:

The geographical location of the East African Rift Valley + East African Rift Zone:)

Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/EAfrica.gi

A picture I took of the Rift Valley!:):) Amazing View from above:)

Source:http://www.afro-asia.info/assets/images/photos/ethiopia/valley-Rift-Valley.jpg