The Amboni Caves are the largest limestone caves in East Africa. It replaces 232 km. These caves located north to the city of Tanga, Tanzania, eight kilometers off Tanga-Mombasa road. The caves were formed almost 150 million years ago during the Jurassic era. According to researchers the area was underwater 20 million years ago. There are only ten caves, but only one is used for tours.
IT'S FORMATION
There are several ways in which caves created in this area, according to Mturi's research of 1975, the first way is that of the rain water which mixed up with carbon dioxide on the atmosphere and creating acid (Carbonic acid) that melting Calcium Carbonate minerals, which generate a large portion of Limestone rocks.
This acidic water led to gradual changes when they move to the ground. And when it enter to the Water Table, it continues to be increasingly mixed with 'Carbon-dioxide' in groundwater. Water fluid increases in the acidic water that has the ability to absorb rocks in the softest parts and then led to cracks that are increasingly expanded by flowing hence made caves and magic pictures of something that no one has not yet been discovered What kind of pictures they are?
Another approach based on the fact that the area was below the sea level, which is located on the shores of the coastal area, where the seaside lakes were rolled out the rocky cliffs and led to Caves and immediately after the oceans step back due to a gradually drop of water in the area. The caves were left dry.
ATTRACTIONS
The cave attracts tourist as well as students for their geography lessons. The attractions include:
Popo flight - (Popo means bat in Swahili). Many of them live in the caves. Every evening at sunset they fly out of the cave entrance.
Rocks in the shape of: a sofa, a ship, a crocodile, an elephant, map of Africa, Statue liberity and a head of a male lion.
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