Jan
GB
Visited:
January 2025
Reviewed: Mar 2, 2025
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| 50-65 years of age
| Experience level: first safari
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Beautiful ark, less busy than the others, very green with lots of trees
Joel
US
Visited:
February 2025
Reviewed: Mar 1, 2025
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| 20-35 years of age
| Experience level: first safari
Heaven for elephants and baboons
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This place must be heaven for elephants, because we saw so many. They're so chill here and got incredibly close to our vehicle. I loved that it was a forested park, which was a nice change of scenery from the Serengeti. I also loved watching the huge troops of baboons - apparently this park has the highest concentration of baboons of any park in Africa. We also got lucky and saw 5 lions, including one up in a tree and one eating a baboon in a bush. Though I wouldn't count on this because our guide said many times he's been to Lake Manyara and not seen any lions.
Lake Manyara also gives you the opportunity to go on a walking safari. An armed park ranger took us on an hour and a half hike, which was an excellent experience getting to experience the bush on foot and learn about the plants and animal signs from the ranger. We got lucky and saw a mother and juvenile elephants drinking at a stream. Wow, what a thrill! It was actually pretty intense because the mother
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started walking in our direction and could have easily charged over the stream, but the park ranger handled it with aplomb and made some loud noises to turn the elephant around.
Lake Manyara was our last stop on our safari. To me I enjoyed it just as much as the heavy hitters like Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater. Better than Tarangire (though I saw Tarangire in February and it's probably better in the dry season when the wildlife is more concentrated).
Ana
PT
Visited:
January 2025
Reviewed: Feb 8, 2025
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| 35-50 years of age
| Experience level: first safari
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Lake Manyara has such a beautiful vegatation with huge trees - even without the animals, the park itself, the lake and the vegetation would be worthy!
This was also the park with less cars and people, and I felt less stress within the animals.
Monika Heinrichs
DE
Visited:
December 2024
Reviewed: Jan 29, 2025
We passed through this park briefly and did an evening drive so can say far less about this park than others. The scenery was lovely and there was wildlife stretching into the distance. The evening drive was less eventful.
Eric Carrillo
US
Visited:
July 2024
Reviewed: Jul 20, 2024
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| 20-35 years of age
| Experience level: first safari
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Mix of jungle/rainforest and the lake and some of the Big 5, it was diverse and different than the plains of the Serengeti. Also - lots of monkey sightings.
David Maybury
AU
Visited:
February 2024
Reviewed: Feb 25, 2024