Is There A Lake That Turns Animals Into Stone?
— If you were wandering through northern Tanzania and stumbled onto the shores of Lake Natron, you might think you’d walked into a myth. The water shimmers red in the heat, the air is thick, and along the shoreline you might see something eerie: perfectly preserved bird carcasses, stiff and pale, looking almost like stone statues.This is where the legend begins. Lake Natron sits in the East African Rift Valley, in the shadow of the active volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai….