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Surrounding Lake Eyasi, south of the Ngorongoro Crater, are ancient percipitous rifts, remnants of the volcanic forces which shaped the Great Rift Valley. To visit the Eyasi lakeside area is a precious enough experience; the ancientness of the land is tangible, and somehow survives despite all the modern influences of late, many of them good and many of them lamentable. But travel to Eyasi's extreme southern shores where the sandy track climbs up and over an old rift to the 3975 square kilometer Yaeda Valley Valley beyond, is really experiencing a step back in time. Yaeda is the true home of the hunter and gatherer group known as the Hadza as well the Datoga, pastoralists like the Maasai. There is no infrasructure in Yaeda; you must camp if you visit. I haven't seen another car besides mine in three days in Yaeda, but this doesn't mean that Yaeda is or will be left untouched. An Arab hunting concession gave up its rights to a swathe of it recently when the Hadza opposed the deal. Mining companies are the new threat. See Yaeda now. These photos of Yaeda were taken September 2008.
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