Sibiloi Hot Springs

Sibiloi Hot Springs is a geothermal feature within Sibiloi National Park on the remote northeastern shore of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, one of Africa's most isolated protected areas and home to remarkable palaeontological discoveries including early human ancestor fossils that make the Turkana basin a cradle of human evolution. The bicarbonate springs emerge in an arid volcanic landscape of petrified forests, lava fields, and windswept desert that creates an otherworldly environment of deep geological time in one of Earth's oldest continuously active rift systems. The springs' setting within a UNESCO World Heritage Site of extraordinary scientific significance — the Koobi Fora fossil beds nearby have yielded hominin remains up to 2 million years old — gives Sibiloi's geothermal features a context of profound evolutionary and geological depth.