One Day Trip to Lake Manyara National Park

We will pick you up from any point in and around Arusha town at around 06.00 to 06.30 hrs and we drive across the Masai Steppe and into the base of the Great Rift Valley up to the Gate of Lake Manyara National Park for a day trip in this amazingly beautiful little gem of a park. A few minutes will be spent at the park’s main gate for registration and park entry fees payment then you will venture into the park for a whole day of game viewing fun. The Park is as the name suggests consists the Lake Manyara which covers 2 thirds of the park with lots of aquatic birds to see including Egyptian geese, the soaring flamingos, herons, ibises, and many more, the park having over 400 species registered. As you enter the park right from the gate you are greeted by sights of mischievous baboons and monkeys which rule this park because of the forestry nature of the park. The park is famous for being evergreen because of the many underground water streams that dot the park as making the park very beautiful throughout the year. The Park is more famous for the legendary tree climbing lions and with little luck you might spot them as they laze on top of the branches of the acacia trees and the sausage trees (Kigelia Africana). Apart from these other animals that can be spotted include zebras, herds of elephants, Defassa water bucks, the shy dik diks, Maasai giraffes, warthogs and many more animals. Visiting the Maji moto hot water springs is another interesting point of the day trip to Lake Manyara. Later in the afternoon at around 16.00 to 16.30 hrs we embark on our way back to Arusha arriving at around 18.00 hrs.

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