Our last park in Tanzania was at Lake Manyara, a sizeable freshwater reserve some 330 sq km in size, 229 of which comprises the lake itself. The lodge we stayed in was on a ridge overlooking the park (shown below) and we had a few days of game drives through the park as well as a tour of the town Mto Wa Mbu (which will be a separate post all its own).
The area is home to a great diversity of birdlife including a variety of hornbills, wagtails, and swarms of flamingos. There were many mammals there as well although the dense forest made them trickier to spot, but there were stretches of savanna and between them we saw baboons, monkeys, hippos, giraffes, warthogs and 'pygmy' elephants that weigh a mere 4 tonnes.
Oddly enough for a park consumed almost entirely by lake there were very few roads to the water, so we spent the majority of our time elsewhere, but the panorama below
(click to enlarge) gives you an idea of the scope of it. Everywhere we went we were told there were normally many more flamingos, but neither of us complained about seeing as many as we did.
The area is home to a great diversity of birdlife including a variety of hornbills, wagtails, and swarms of flamingos. There were many mammals there as well although the dense forest made them trickier to spot, but there were stretches of savanna and between them we saw baboons, monkeys, hippos, giraffes, warthogs and 'pygmy' elephants that weigh a mere 4 tonnes.
Oddly enough for a park consumed almost entirely by lake there were very few roads to the water, so we spent the majority of our time elsewhere, but the panorama below (click to enlarge) gives you an idea of the scope of it. Everywhere we went we were told there were normally many more flamingos, but neither of us complained about seeing as many as we did.
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