Lake Manyara National Park

After breakfast around 8:30a.m you are met by our professional tour guide/driver, who will deliver a short safari info briefing, thereafter we will drive west of Arusha to the Great Rift Valley and the Lake Manyara National Park. We will travel through the agricultural and fresh produce market town of Mto Wa Mbu, which is situated next to the entrance of the Lake Manyara National Park. Optional we will visit a Maasai Village depending on availability of time, where we learn about the life and beliefs of Tanzania’s nomadic people.

The town is a souvenir hunters paradise, harboring thousands souvenir salesmen – ready to pounce at your slightest invitation. The Lake Manyara National Park is one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located African wildlife areas, consisting of a massive but shallow soda lake (covering two-thirds of the park) at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment.

The park’s varied habitat attracts a wide variety of animals, including one of Africa’s densely populated African elephants herds, Lake Manyara’s famous tree-climbing lions, as well as large flocks of flamingos, attracted by the algae in the lake. We will enjoy a picnic lunch inside the park and do two exciting morning and afternoon game drives, in search of the tree-climbing lions and if we are lucky see them. Late afternoon we depart for Moshi or Arusha from Lake Manyara where we will end our safari adventure. You will be taken to your hotel, which ends our tour packages services.