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When the Mountain breathes steam, but Bongo's survive: The hidden wonders of Eburu

Visitors with locals enjoying the natural sauna at Eburu forest. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

At dawn, Mount Eburu exhales. From the fractures in the earth’s crust, white steam hisses and curls into the thin highland air, drifting through bamboo thickets and ancient Podo trees, dissolving above ridges crowned with towering Juniperus procera trees.

The Maasai call it Ol doinyo Opuru, meaning the mountain of steam.

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