Lake Manyara National Park is one of Tanzania’s smallest national parks, yet still it has magnificent scenery and an unique wildlife population. The lake is a soda lake/alkaline lake with a maximum depth of 3.7 m. The vegetation transitions from ground water forests to floodplains to acacia wood plains Lake manyara size of 330 kilometre square.

Tours of Lake Manyara National Park take you on a horseshoe-shaped driving route through five different vegetation zones. The alkaline soda water of the lake acts like a magnet ensuring that your Lake Manyara tour offers plenty of opportunities to see much diverse wildlife. It’s ideal for bird-watchers, alongside elephant and flamingo. The forests also attract the park’s famous tree-climbing lions.

If you travel further south to the Msasa River, you’ll see volcanic rock give way to ancient crystalline rock, creating waterfalls that run down the Rift Valley escarpment. And where there’s running water, the game animals are never too far away.