The Rift Valley in East Africa is a natural wonder of the world.

The Rift Valley in East Africa is a natural wonder of the world.

The Great Rift Valley in East Africa is the largest fault zone on the world continent. The overall shape of the Great Rift Valley in East Africa can be drawn as an irregular triangle. The valley is tens to 200 kilometers wide and 1000 ~ 2000 meters deep, which looks like a huge scar from satellite photos. It extends south from Jordan, across Africa and ends in Mozambique.

Rift lakes are mostly long and narrow, and some lakes are far below sea level. The Great Rift Valley in East Africa is a huge natural reservoir, which concentrates most of the lakes in Africa, including about 30 lakes, including Abbe Lake, Sarah Lake, Turkana Lake, Magadi Lake, Malawi Lake and Tanganyika Lake. The lakes in these rift zones are blue, vast and ever-changing. They are not only tourist attractions, but also rich in water resources. The lakeside land is fertile, the vegetation is lush and there are many wild animals.

This great rift valley, which is equivalent to one sixth of the circumference of the earth, is magnificent. It is the largest rift zone in the world. Some people vividly call it a big scar on the earth's epidermis, which has attracted many tourists throughout the ages.

According to archaeological findings, the vicinity of Lake Victoria in the Rift Valley in East Africa is an important area for the activities of apes. Maybe millions of years ago, human beings thrived here. In the late 1950s, archaeologists also discovered a prehistoric H-shaped skull fossil in the Rift Valley in East Africa. This shows that the Rift Valley is a land with splendid ancient civilization and one of the cradles of human civilization.