By Lazaro George, Guide - Greystoke MahaleHere in Mahale Mountains we are on the belt of the rift valley. Lake Tanganyika is formed by this rift in the earth. Either side of the lake, which is 50km wide, there are the same huge mountains as our Mahale mountains. The belt of this rift valley started far north in Jordan-Red sea-Ethiopia-Kenya where western and eastern rift valley started. The western valley comes down through Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi to lake Tanganyika and joins with the eastern rift valley near the Tanzania and Malawi border. Then the valley goes farther down into Mozambique through lake Nyasa.
And now days, because we’re in this zone we feel it when earthquakes appear. Recently an earthquake appeared and it was night time and I was reviewing my notes in my note book. Ifeel like my tent vibrating and I had water bottle on my desk at the same time I saw water in the bottle vibrating too.
At the next morning I had other staff asking about it but some of them (including the sleepy managers) they could not feel any thing about. According to the people who are living at the nearest village, they wonder at our reaction because is really normal thing in this zone.
