About 45km south of Oldupai Gorge at remote Laetoli is a 27m-long trail of 3.7-million-year-old hominid footprints, probably made by Australopithecus afarensis . Discovered by Mary Leakey's team in 1976 and excavated two years later, it's an extraordinarily evocative and remote site. A long-planned (and still under construction) EU–funded museum is planned, but there's a small temporary museum on the site. There are cast copies of the prints are in Oldupai Museum .
An extremely rough, 4WD-only track connects the Oldupai Museum with Laetoli via Noorkisaruni Kopje and Endulen. A far better road runs to Endulen from Kimba on the Ngorongoro Crater Rim along the southern side of Makarot. Coming from either route, Laetoli lies 9km west of Endulen.
