Attractions within the Eastern Rift Valley includes lakes, national parks, reserves, pre historic sites, the Rift valley itself, ranches etc. A rift valley is a linear shaped lowland between several highlands or Mountain ranges created by the action of a geologic rift or fault. The East African Rift, also called the Great Rift Valley in East Africa, is the largest continental rift valley on Earth Stretches 3000 miles from Lebanon on the North to Mozambique on the South. 

As the tectonic plates on each side continue to move apart, the Rift is expected to separate and form an Ocean basin. The land East of the Rift will then become a large island off the African Coast (in the next 50 million years). The Eastern branch of the Rift passes through Ethiopia and Kenya and the Western branch forms a giant arc from Uganda to Malawi.