The Great Rift Valley was formed over 20 million years ago when violent subterranean shifts collapsed the mammoth tracks of land that were situated along parallel fault lines, thus prompting enormous volcanic eruptions of molten rock. This current day immense fissure in the earth’s crust stretches some 9,500 kilometres from Mozambique to Lebanon.
With its dramatically steep inclines and expansive domination over the landscape, Kenya and Tanzania are the two countries which are most characterised by the Great Rift Valley’s presence. Both of these countries boast high-lying inland plateaux and fertile coastal belts dotted with numerous tropical islands.