About Lake Manyara National Park
Located on the way to Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the Serengeti, Lake Manyara National Park is worth a stop in its own right. Its ground water forests, Bush plains, Baobab strewn cliffs and Algae-streaked hot springs offer incredible ecological variety in a small area, rich in wildlife and incredible numbers of birds.
Lake Manyara’s thick forests are a unique and surprising habitat for sightings of Lion, which are known to climb and lounge in the trees, as well as hunting on the grassy shores of the lake.
Inland of the floodplain, a narrow belt of acacia woodland is the favored haunt of Manyara’s legendary tree-climbing lions and impressively tusked elephants. Squadrons of banded mongoose dart between the acacias, whereas the diminutive Kirk’s dik-dik forages in their shade. Pairs of klipspringers are often seen silhouetted on the rocks above a field of searing hot springs that steams and bubbles adjacent to the lakeshore in the far south of the park.