Lake Manyara National Park Day Trip

Lake Manyara National Park is one of the finest gems in Tanzania which stretches more than 30 miles or 50 km along the base of the Rift Valley escarpment. You’ll get to explore the natural beauty and spot birds easily. It also accomodates a diverse wildlife. Your experienced tour guide will take you through them all. The park lies 1.5 hours west of Arusha which is about 126 km in distance and is close to a diverse market town of Mto wa Mbu. Lake Manyara National Park is unspoiled paradise with ground water forest, laced with underground springs and teeming with wildlife such as elephants, hippos, giraffes, buffaloes, the largest baboon troops in Africa and some of the antelopes. Lake Manyara is a salt lake with thousands of flamingos. It is full of outstanding birding places with more than 400 species on display and butterflies. You can also see pelicans, storks, kingfishers and many other birds. It is also a famous jungle, where early Tanzanian movies were filmed.

Highlights

• Full-day Ngorongoro experience from Moshi/Arusha
• Travel with a personal car and driver
• Get off the beaten track in a 4×4
• See native wildlife in their natural environment
• All entrance fees included
• Breakfast and lunch included

What You Can Expect?

After breakfast you are met by our professional tour guide/driver at 7:00AM, who will deliver a short safari info briefing, after which we travel west 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. The town is home to thousands of souvenir selling salesmen who pounce of even the slightest sales opportunity.

Lake Manyara National Park is among the most dramatic African wildlife areas of Tanzania consisting of massive, yet shallow, soda lake which covers almost two-thirds of the park. It is located at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. The varied habitat of the park draws wide variety of animals including densely populated African elephants, tree-climbing lions, and large flock of flamingos. Two game drives, one in morning, another in evening, and a picnic lunch will be organized inside the park. Later in the afternoon, we’ll depart for Moshi/Arusha which will bring the safari adventure to an end. You will be taken to your hotel, which ends our tour packages services.