Lake Manyara
Easily accessible Rift Valley lake and national park with hippos and good birdlife.
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Eat a picnic lunch while watching the hippo pools.
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Bird watchers paradise with numerous water birds spotted around the lake.
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Stunning setting with a backdrop of the sheer walls of the Great Rift Valley.
Rift Valley Lake with Hippos and Good Birdlife
Located 125 km to the west of Arusha, under the wall of the Great Rift Valley, Lake Manyara is a shallow soda lake that takes up almost three quarters of the Lake Manyara National Park.
The lake shores are a ornithologist’s paradise with over 400 bird species found in the area. Common water birds to be seen here are pelicans, spoonbills, Egyptian geese, hammer kops and the migratory flamingoes, which arrive in hundreds of thousands to create one of Africa’s great natural sights over the soda lake. Hippos can be found in small pools around the lake shore.