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Hi Carl,
Thank you for the interesting and informative post.
Just one trivial correction, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area is in Tanzania,
but not too far from the Kenyan border.
Ngorongoro is at the southern end of the Serengeti/Masai Mara plains.
What is quite dramatic about the geography there today is that as you travel north
through Kenya, up through the Masai Mara where you are up at 1600m/1500m,
when you reach the Marich Pass, you plummet down to around 500m and with
it the vegetation changes very suddenly, from the acacia forests and richer vegetation
around places like Mount Kenya to dry desert areas that continue their way north
up through the Sudan and into Egypt. The mean elevation continues to drop
all the way to the Mediterranean.
So the elevation also appears to play some part in that transition from the deserts
of the north to the acacia plains further south nearer the equator perhaps?
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