Lake Manyara National Park is remarkably notable due to its tree-climbing lions, groundwater forest, Marang' forest, rift valley, hot springs, and diversified bird species. Planning your safari to Tanzania is not complete if you exclude visiting Lake Manyara National Park which offers exceptional encounters that quench people’s travel thirst. Click here to view mountain gorilla trekking safaris.

Wild Animals at Lake Manyara National park

Lake Manyara national park protects a thousand animals, including elephants, tree-climbing lions, buffalo, hippo, giraffes, leopards, and cheetahs, which are spotted occasionally. Lions chose to rest on the trees in Lake Manyara National Park. The Lions of Lake Manyara National Park provide an unforgettable experience. Click here to see our recommended mountain gorilla trekking tour. 

Bird watching at Lake Manyara national park

Lake Manyara National park offers a diverse range of bird species, with more than 390 species including migratory birds, resident birds, forest birds, and 50 birds of prey. Other bird species include raucous forest hornbills, flotillas of pelicans, and pink-hued flamingos.

Game Drive at Lake Manyara National Park

Lake Manyara national park game drives within the lower slopes of the great rift valley protect a variety of wildlife species such as elephants, tree-climbing lions, buffalo, leopards, antelopes, and giraffes that offer exceptional sightings all day.

The Treetop Canopy Walk

Besides the normal way of spotting wildlife in Lake Manyara National Park, there is a tree-top canopy walk that gives tourists an opportunity to view other wildlife in a unique style. Walking at treetop height allows travelers to see some unique primates and many bird species within the forest.

Tour the heart of Masaai Country houses around Manyara National Park. Here tourists can visit the unforgettable appealing red-robbed pastoralists who are situated in a boma. Outside Manyara National Park, tourists can participate in mountain bike tours and escarpment forest walks. When water levels are favorable, canoe safaris can also be done.

Lake Manyara National Park offers a number of fascinating tourist attractions to be explored by travelers. Lake Manyara National Park is situated within the northern part of Tanzania. Lake Manyara National Park is located 126 kilometers west of Arusha Town and occupies over 330 square kilometers, of which 220 square kilometers form the lake when the water levels rise during the rainy season.

Lake Manyara National Park is the nearest park to Tarangire National Park via the Kwakuchinja Corridor. Tarangire National Park offers animals that can easily be seen near the roads towards Lake Manyara and Serengeti National parks.

Lake Manyara

Lake Manyara is an alkaline lake that is situated in this park that swells and reduces its size depending on the seasons located within the silvery bowl of salt deposits. Lake Manyara National Park covers an area of 220 square kilometers, which is two-thirds of Lake Manyara National Park’s total surface area. Lake Manyara National Park hosts a countless number of pink flamingos in addition to other wildlife species such as hippos that are surviving along the shallow part of the lake.

Lake Manyara national park consists of lush green vegetation comprising tall trees, tree-climbing lions, and groundwater forests. It also protects the soda lake that harbors thousands of pink-hued flamingos, water birds, baboon troops, blue monkeys, and the rift valley escarpments, making your Tanzanian safari unforgettable and complete. Lake Manyara national park’s name comes from a specific plant called Emanyara in Maasai, the local Tanzanian language, or Euphorbia tirucallanes in English. Lake Manyara National Park covers approximately 648.7 km2.

Lake Manyara National Park encounters two rainy seasons, with the short rainy season beginning in November and continuing through December, the long rainy season beginning from February to May, and the long dry season starting from late June to October every year.

Watching wildlife in Lake Manyara National Park can be done all year, but it's best done from June to October, during the dry months. However, Lake Manyara National Park is very scenic; it is most beautiful during the wet months, from November to May, when the vegetation layers are lush and waterfalls cascade down the escarpment in this park.