Engoveroni, a big but scattered village in the Rift valley near the volcano Oldoinyo Lengai. Flying Medical Service operates an airplane to serve a mobile clinic out there
Beautiful area, isn’t it?
There is even a secondary school out there. These running pupils seem happy to go home.
This village is much better than others, look at the corrugated roofs.
and even a shop or 2.
The main street.
Here is the airstrip, a crazy one to be precise. The whole area is located at 2000m on the slope of a crater, Empakai, which explains the gullies and ridges. So a ridge has been used for the strip. Wind, steep slope (11%), short (450m), rough…if things go wrong, there is for instance a nice gully to welcome any veering aircraft… For a real bush pilot, this is a challenging and dream place to go.
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