Overview

Lake Manyara National Park is a scenic gem in the northern tourism circuit of Tanzania, and it stretches along a 50km wide floor of the great east African rift valley. Visiting Lake Manyara park is the most rewarding time to view the rare tree-climbing lions of Tanzania only found in Lake Manyara national park and Queen Elizabeth national park in Uganda.

Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania is located in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area which spans across vast expanses of highland plains, savanna woodlands and forests. Established in 1959 as a multiple land use area, with wildlife coexisting with semi-nomadic Maasai pastoralists practicing traditional livestock grazing, it includes the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater, the world’s largest caldera. The property has global importance for biodiversity conservation due to the presence of globally threatened species, the density of wildlife inhabiting the area, and the annual migration of wildebeest, zebra, gazelles and other animals into the northern plains. Extensive archaeological research has also yielded a long sequence of evidence of human evolution and human-environment dynamics, including early hominid footprints dating back 3.6 million years.