Pick up at Jambo Rooms, Karatu or Arusha and head off to explore the wonderful Lake Manyara. After about 30 min arrive to gate. Enjoy a game drive in the park with a picnic lunch.
Lake Manyara is best known for its rich variety of bird life and tree climbing lion. Elephants, zebra, wildebeest, buffalo, monkeys, flamingos, pelicans, cormorants and storks, to mention a few also visible in Manyara. Later drive back to Karatu.
Located in the Arusha Region of northern Tanzania, Lake Manyara is the centrepiece of the Lake Manyara National Park. Lake Manyara is a soda lake and its 230km² surface covers two thirds of the park’s total area.
Lake Manyara is part of the northern circuit of national parks in Tanzania. A popular route is to start in Arusha and visit Lake Manyara before continuing to Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and finishing your adventure at Arusha. These attractions can be combined as part of a 5-6 day itinerary.
Although Lake Manyara National Park does not contain as much wildlife as its bigger sisters, the Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti, scientists believed that Lake Manyara contained one of the highest concentrations of wildlife in Africa during the 1980s.