Mount Longonot, Kenya

Mount Longonot most recent caldera (pit crater) with line of pyroclastic craters down flank fissure on the north.  Massive lava flow on the flank visible on the lower left of the photo.  Image courtesy Lonely Planet

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The Double Caldera of Mount Suswa, Kenya

Mount Suswa from the rim of the oldest caldera. Image courtesy African Spice Safaris

Magical MENENGAI CRATER – Kenya

Panorama of Menengai Crater. (© Stefano & Michael Amani, kenyavacanze.org)

If our reader Cate hadn’t mentioned it in a comment I would never have thought of writing about Menengai Crater.  It is one of the rift volcanoes in western central Kenya, within the wonderful and strange landscape of the Kenyan Rift valley.