A day tour to this park starts at Arusha for about 1h and 30 minutes’ drive. You will depart with your packed lunch toward Lake Manyara National Park.
Lake Manyara National Park is one of the most dramatically located wildlife areas consisting of massive but shallow soda lake at the foot of Great Rift Valley’s escarpment. It’s the park with highest biomass densities of large mammals in the world and the famous place for its tree-climbing lions; if lucky you can spot them up there. From the entrance gate, the road winds through an expanse of lush jungle-like groundwater forest where hundreds of baboon troops lounge nonchalantly along the roadside. Blue monkeys scamper nimbly between the ancient mahogany trees, dainty bushbuck tread warily through the shadows, and outsized forest hornbills honk cacophonously in the high canopy. Between November and April, thousands of greater and lesser pink flamingos gather on its shores, along with pink-backed pelicans, yellow-billed storks, grey herons and pods of hippo.
Later you will drive back to Arusha to proceed with your next program.
(Lake Manyara National Park tour is easy to combine with other parks including Serengeti National Park, Tarangire National Park and Ngorongoro Conservancy area and Ngorongoro Crater).
