This safari adventure will take place at Lake Manyara National Park or Tarangire National Park and Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania.
Lake Manyara National Park
Hemingway describes Lake Manyara National Park as a magnificent hunting country in “The Green Hills of Africa”. Mahogany, sausage tree, and croton are alive with blue monkeys and vervets. Elephants feed off fallen fruit while bushbuck, waterbuck, baboons, aardvark, civet, the shy pangolin and leopard, as well as the black rhino, all make their home in the forest.
Manyara is a sanctuary to elusive buffalo and hippo, giraffe, impala, zebra and the famous residents, the tree-climbing lions. Lake Manyara itself is a magnet for birdlife and a kaleidoscope of different species can be found around its shores, including huge flocks of flamingoes. The park is ideal for a day trip. A four-wheel drive is recommended during the rains. The dry season is from June to September and January to February.
Ngorongoro Crater
The views at the rim of Ngorongoro Crater are sensational. On the crater floor, grassland blends into swamps, lakes, rivers, woodland, and mountains. It is a haven for wildlife, including the densest predator population in Africa. The crater is home to up to 25,000 large mammals, mainly grazers like gazelle, buffalo, eland, hartebeest, and warthog.
You will not find giraffe as there is not much to eat at tree level, or topi because the competition with wildebeest is too fierce, nor will you find impala. The crater elephants are strangely, mainly bulls. There are a small number of black rhinos there too. The birdlife is largely seasonal and is also affected by the ratio of soda to fresh water in Lake Magadi on the crater floor.
