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TRIP IDEA & SAMPLE ITINERARY FOR YOUR SAFARI IN LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK

When visiting Lake Manyara National Park, we recommend combining your safari with a visit to Serengeti, Tarangire & Ngorongoro Crater. You may optionally extend out to Southern Tanzania, and experience the off-beat wilderness areas of Ruaha & Selous ending with a beach vacation and Swahili cultural tour in the exotic spice island of Zanzibar.

ARUSHA

On your arrival in northern Tanzania, we recommend spending 1 or 2 nights in the suburbs of Arusha to unwind but also to give you an opportunity to experience the rich historical and cultural heritage of this diverse city. The town is located at the base of Mount Meru offering endless vistas of this iconic highland, as well as the roof of Africa -- Mount Kilimanjaro.

Recommended Accommodation Options In Arusha

Safari Tier 1 - Arusha Coffee Lodge

Nestled within one of Tanzania’s largest coffee plantations is Arusha Coffee Lodge, a premier hotel in Arusha. The design of the lodge is an elegant blend of wood, brick and glass set within the foothills of Mount Meru. Within this splendid setting are 30 Plantation Houses with 12 Plantation Suites and 18 Plantation Rooms that reflect the historical architecture of the original 1900’s house. Arusha Coffee Lodge

Safari Tier 2 - Hatari Lodge

Hatari Lodge is situated on the edge of Arusha National Park, giving you access to one of Tanzania’s majestic wilderness areas for your African safari, offering inordinate panoramas of the mighty Kilimanjaro mountain and striking Mount Meru amidst diverse terrestrial fauna. The two best ways to explore the park are via game drives and walking safaris supplemented with canoeing experience at Momella Lakes. Hatari Lodge in Arusha National Park

Safari Tier 3 - Arusha Safari Lodge

Located only 20 minutes from the city, Arusha Safari Lodge is a conveniently-located and personable hotel in Arusha. The accommodation was formerly known as “Safari Spa” until the welcoming rebranding. When you arrive, the professional and courteous staff greets you with a refreshing glass of fresh juice and warm face towels. When you arrange your travel, you may choose from any of the 2 guest rooms in the main building or any 7 poolside cottages situated by the gardens.Arusha Safari Lodge

TOUR EXPERIENCES OF ARUSHA

LAKE MANYARA

Proceed to Lake Manyara National Park for the next 2 nights. Manyara is one of the smallest safari parks in Tanzania, but encloses within its numerous microclimates a diverse range of landscapes and animal populations which mirror those of many different parts of Tanzania in miniature.

Recommended Accommodation Options In Lake Manyara

Safari Tier 1 - Lake Manyara Tree Lodge

Lake Manyara Tree Lodge is a charming and extremely atmospheric base for your AfricanMecca photo safari to Tanzania. It confers the experience of intimate wilderness living in a uniquely varied area of serene beauty. It is a perfect venue for the true connoisseur of African travel, deep in the southern mahogany forest, where the animals look smaller and more approachable in the dappled shade of huge trees. This small, quiet, and secluded gem in an area of evergreen “ground water” forest is crossed by a small river where pods of portly hippopotamus wallow, attended by egrets feeding on leeches which pester them, Geese honk on the nearer bank while zebra amble on the farther side.Lake Manyara Tree Lodge

Safari Tier 2 - Lemala Manyara Camp

Lemala Manyara Camp is a small, tented East African tour accommodation lost in the south western reaches of the beautiful Lake Manyara. The camp is of traditional canvas structures, ecologically friendly and isolated in nature, the main attraction being the minimal presence of other tourists, fewer in-camp guests and the total wilderness experience without the inconvenience of “roughing it”. The adventure is completed by skilled, friendly, and enthusiastic staff, dedicated to your comfort, enjoyment and safety. Lemala Manyara has 12 clean and classic bushy canvas tents including a family tent, each standard accommodating up to three people in large, comfortable deluxe twin or king size beds. Lemala Manyara Camp

Safari Tier 3 - Kirurumu Manyara Lodge

Kirurumu Manyara Lodge is a friendly and unpretentious tented eco-lodge set high on the rim of the Great African Rift Valley escarpment, on the main route from Arusha to the Ngorongoro Crater and just 20 minutes from the entrance to Lake Manyara National Park. It provides a simple, cost-conscious base for your tour of Northern Tanzania with AfricanMecca. The views are breathtaking in every direction. 27 standard tented rooms with thatched roofs provide basic convenience for travelers in Africa. There are also 2 more distant honeymoon suites and 2 stone and canvas family cottages in two stories. Each room is clean, cool and airy, pleasantly furnished with comfortable beds sporting cheerful Maasai blankets and circular woven mats.Kirurumu Manyara Lodge

TOUR EXPERIENCES OF LAKE MANYARA

NGORONGORO CRATER

Proceed to Ngorongoro for the next 2 nights with game drive crater floor. Home to the densest concentration of wild animals in Africa, Ngorongoro Crater is sited within 100 square miles of varied micro-climates, encompassing over 30,000 mammals, half of them rangy wildebeest and well-rounded zebra, together with their many predators, lordly lion, lithe cheetah, retiring leopard, opportunist jackal and skulking hyena, with a vast cast of smaller mammals and birds, form a compelling destination for a dream tour of Tanzania.

Recommended Accommodation Options In Ngorongoro Crater

Safari Tier 1 - The Manor At Ngorongoro

Set amidst tranquil gardens within a 1500 acre coffee farm in Northern Tanzania, the Manor at Ngorongoro combines bygone Colonial charm with East African hospitality at its best. For a truly luxurious taste of Cape Dutch style and modern Elewana comfort with all the drama of African adventure, the Manor at Ngorongoro safari cannot be beaten. Adjacent to the borders of Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area, in verdant highlands, it makes a memorable home-base from which to explore the entire range of the volcanic uplands and the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater itself, a collapsed volcano which contains the densest and most diverse wildlife to be found on a tour to Africa.The Manor at Ngorongoro

Safari Tier 2 - Ngorongoro Serena Lodge

Ngorongoro Serena Lodge is a superbly camouflaged safari haven set high on the largest caldera in the world and cushioned in the Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area, Tanzania. It offers AfricanMecca guests a convenient base from which to explore the varied, self-contained biosphere of what is arguably the most densely populated wildlife conservancy in the world. The Ngorongoro Serena Lodge safari experience combines an unforgettable setting, massive, boulder-built walls and ponderously dramatic accommodation, with unbeatable year-round game-viewing opportunities in a veritable paradise for photographers, adventurers and enthusiastic bird-watchers alike. Ngorongoro Serena Lodge

Safari Tier 3 - Ngorongoro Farm House

Ngorongoro Farm House is a hugely successful, popular African travel lodge set on a 500 acre coffee farm a few miles from the Lolduare Gate to the Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area, with views of the massive Oldeano Volcano towering to 9,000 feet on the edge of the Great African Rift Valley. Like its smaller sister, Tloma Lodge, a short distance away, it offers comfortable Tanganyika Wilderness accommodations set amidst beautiful and productive gardens, with decor reminiscent of the Colonial era.Ngorongoro Farm House

TOUR EXPERIENCES OF NGORONGORO CRATER

CENTRAL SERENGETI

You will proceed to the Seronera Valley in Central Serengeti for the next two nights, a year-round game-viewing mecca with impressive populations of herbivores and predators which remain even after the spectacular hordes of rutting wildebeest and zebra have gone. Across the vast plains of the Serengeti National Park range a fantastic cast of wild creatures including impressive numbers of hoofed herbivores, predators and avi-fauna. Amongst them, the principal actors are the blue wildebeest (gnu) and the stalking predators, determining the nature of the ecosystem by their spectacular annual Great Migration, The Greatest Show Of The Natural World.

Recommended Accommodation Options In Serengeti Central

Safari Tier 1 - Serengeti Pioneer Camp

Serengeti Pioneer Camp is an addition to a collection of Elewana lodges, camps and hotels located in East Africa. This camp specifically is located within the Moru Kopjes area in the southern end of the central sector of the Serengeti in Tanzania. Situated close to the breeding plains of the wildebeest, near the start of their dramatic yearly mass migration, it is ideally placed to observe this world famous event. Over a million wildebeest set off every year on a year round trip following the rains for succulent grazing attended by several hundreds of thousands of gazelle, zebra and other hooved animals, together with thousands more predators who feed off the young, the stragglers and the weak.Serengeti Pioneer Camp

Safari Tier 2 - Soroi Serengeti Lodge

Soroi Serengeti Lodge is located in the western side of central sector of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. It is a superbly built luxury Mbali Mbali safari accommodation, a must stop for discerning adventurers who travel in Africa. Set high on a majestic granite rocky outcrop overlooking the Musabi plains panorama and shading distant and nearby hills; it is cushioned by the breath-taking views over the Serengeti plains and its fantastic wildlife, the Soroi is a safari accommodation and location to be prized for its own sake on your AfricanMecca vacation in Tanzania. Soroi Serengeti Lodge

Safari Tier 3 - Kati Kati Camp

You have not experienced the true nature of safaris in Africa until you have tried an authentic bush tented camp such as the Kati Kati Camp overlooking the vast rolling grass plains in Central Serengeti. The camp provides an ecologically responsible way to get back to your roots during your tour in Tanzania with AfricanMecca. Ecologically sound, because the management takes care in minimizing footprint to the ecology from their activities by re-sitting the tents periodically to provide former sites to naturally renew..Kati Kati Camp

TOUR EXPERIENCES OF SERENGETI CENTRAL

SERENGETI - SOUTH, NORTH, WEST & EAST

After your stay in Central Serengeti, you will proceed for 3 nights to the polar direction of where the migrating wildebeests are located, moving from or towards the area (view Serengeti wildebeest migration map), and choosing a strategic Serengeti accommodation to maximize on your migration tracking activities, predator-prey interactions and other diverse terrestrial, aquatic and avian fauna viewing opportunities. The Great Migration of the wildebeest in the Serengeti is the largest single movement of wild animals in the world, deservedly listed as one of the “Natural Wonders Of The World”, and a superb reason for a dream tour of Tanzania with AfricanMecca.

Recommended Migration Tracking Accommodation Options In Serengeti

Southern Serengeti Camps And Lodges

On a Serengeti South Safari with AfricanMecca, from December to March, you can follow the wildebeest in at Kusini, in the Serengeti National Park, at Ndutu in the similar Serengeti ecology of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and at the bordering Maswe Game Reserve. On the rich grasslands from Ndutu to Kusini, the gnu produce 8,000 calves a day for three weeks. Predatory lion, leopard, cheetah, jackals and hyena eat their fill, but the majority survive. Nearby lakes attract colorful flamingos. Acacia woodlands provide homes for hundreds of birds, monkeys and small mammals. Grassland erupts with wildflowers and fascinating insect life.

Northern Serengeti Camps And Lodges

From July to September, the Mara River in Northern Serengeti affords the most dramatic river crossings. Fierce and deep, cliff-sided and rain-swollen, the river takes an enormous toll of the exhausted and terrified wildebeests that surge through its torrential flow, drowning helplessly, foundering in narrow defiles, floundering in mud, falling victim to prehistoric crocodiles, staggering, exhausted to dry land and often, in confusion, returning to the scene of their ordeal. On a Serengeti North Mara River Safari with AfricanMecca, this raw, moving farce-cum-tragedy cannot fail to rivet itself in memory as the gnu clowns of Africa, these ungainly animals, demonstrate their strength and courage, each an expendable unit of a single wildebeest herd-entity determined to survive.

Western Serengeti Camps And Lodges

From April to June, a vast army of wildebeest and zebra head out from Central South Serengeti towards the Western Corridor, with an intent to cross over the less treacherous Grumeti River. Harassed behind by lion, cheetah and hyenas and ahead by giant Nile crocodiles, many hundreds perish as they hazard the river crossing. But the beauty of the landscape, stretching without end beneath an infinite sky on a Serengeti West Safari with AfricanMecca, changes something within the watcher, who becomes more aware of the place of humankind within the drama of the animal world. There is a sizable resident wildebeest population which does not migrate but remains here year-round. When the seasonal Mbalageti River runs dry, the Grumeti River retains pools which attract thousands of mammals. Buffalo and hippopotamus rarely stray far from water.

Eastern Serengeti Camps And Lodges

Enjoy a Serengeti East Safari with AfricanMecca during October and November when the mega herds from Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya return to the rich plains of the Serengeti National Park, east of the Grumeti River, passing through Lobo and Western Loliondo and under the majestic Gol Mountains, at the northern edge of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Here, you will find higher concentrations of cheetah in the Serengeti, preying on thousands of indigenous gazelle. The mountains shelter colonies of Rupels Griffon Vultures. Wildebeest cover the valleys on their way north in the long rains in March to May, and some pour through the scenic bottleneck of the Angata Kiti pastures during the shorter rains on their way back south. But with or without the migratory millions, this area is breath-taking for its immensity and feeling of freedom. These lands, the way Africa used to be, are home to the nomadic Maasai people, a fitting destination for an African cultural safari.

TOUR EXPERIENCES OF SERENGETI SOUTH, NORTH, WEST & EAST

RECOMMENDED PRE AND POST SAFARI AND BEACH EXTENSIONS IN TANZANIA

After your Northern Tanzania safari, we recommend a combination off-beat extension to either Southern or Western Tanzania depending on your safari activity and wildlife preferences. Thereafter, harmoniously conclude with a beach rest and relaxation visit to the Eastern coast of Tanzania with varied seashore, cultural and historic experiences available, including the spice island of Zanzibar, the secluded Ras Kutani beach, idyllic private islands of Mnemba, Fanjove and Lazy Lagoon or a bush and beach experience at Saadani National Park. The options are endless!

SOUTHERN TANZANIA SAFARI EXPERIENCE - RECOMMENDED FOR 3 NIGHTS STAY

Selous Game Reserve

Selous Game Reserve in Southern Tanzania has 55,000 square kilometers (over 21000 square miles) of pristine wilderness designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1982. It is the stately Rufiji River with its navigable network of stunning oxbow lakes and tributaries forming an inland delta that makes Selous so unique from all the other parks in Tanzania. You can boat, walk and game drive here! Apart from its massive herds of tens of thousands of elephants and Cape buffalo, the reserve boasts a varied population of large mammals including huge pods of hippos and prides of lions as well as packs of African wild dogs and families of black rhinoceros, both fast disappearing in other parts of Africa.

Ruaha National Park

Ruaha is one of the most awe-inspiring African safari destinations. Its unspoiled character results from its inaccessibility which contributes to the tremendous range of wildlife to be found on tour in wild Ruaha, not in vast herds of single species, but in diverse and wide-spread fauna communities. In its unadulterated ecology, lions snooze on the sandy Mwagusi River bed and rangy cheetah mothers can be spotted with their hungry cubs around rocky kopjes on dry grassland as they wait to ambush a careless antelope. The park boasts of over of 20,000 elephants in dissected herds, and also buffalo, hundreds of crocodiles and hippopotamus, 38 kinds of fish in the Great Ruaha River, and one of the largest bird checklist ever to delight a twitcher’s heart, with over 570 species recorded.

WESTERN TANZANIA SAFARI EXPERIENCE - RECOMMENDED FOR 4 NIGHTS STAY

Katavi National Park

Only a few hundred privileged African safari enthusiasts can visit Katavi National Park each year. Arguably the most remote and unspoiled wildlife haven in Tanzania, at 4471 square kilometers (1727 square miles) in extent, this is the third largest wilderness area dedicated to the conservation of spectacular concentrations of indigenous mammals, including thousands of Cape buffalo, various antelopes, zebras, elephants, hippos, crocodiles and predators such as lions, cheetahs, leopards, hyenas and jackals. The endangered African wild dogs are also found here as well as many smaller felines, including the golden and wild cats, servals, caracals and civets.

Mahale Mountains National Park Or Gombe Stream National Park

There are four sub-species of chimpanzees in Africa, all threatened by loss of their tropical forest habitats. One sub-species is found on the banks of the stunningly beautiful Lake Tanganyika in western Tanzania. The most popular primate safaris are in Gombe and Mahale, sites of intensive studies of chimpanzees, mankind’s closest living genetic kin with more than 95% of DNA in common. Dr. Jane Goodall studied one group of over 60 chimpanzees, the Kasakela community, which you may see on a chimpanzee safari to Gombe Stream National Park, where she has set up a research center. Down in Mahale Mountains, the park is justly famous by Japanese researchers headed by the late Dr. Toshisada Nishida since the 1960s, where for over 800 wild chimpanzees roam, more than any other African park.

EASTERN TANZANIA BEACH EXPERIENCE - RECOMMENDED FOR 3 TO 6 NIGHTS STAY

Tanzania’s Eastern coastline and surrounding islands have come a long way from its tempestuous history of imperialists from many nations vying for control of this priceless gem on the shores of the Indian Ocean. Today, its peaceful and tranquil environment offers you a dream beach vacation where turtles are nesting, completely oblivious to humans, cream beautiful deserted sands and waves caressing them under the warmth of the tropical sun. The only sounds that greet you are that of the waves softly stroking the sand and the sea breeze rustling through the Indian Ocean palm trees on your secluded beach. Complement your beach holiday with Swahili cultural and historic experiences in Zanzibar, Bagamoyo and Kilwa.

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Accommodation in Manyara varies based on the experience and location sought. Some are located inside the park in the southern expanse while others are sited on the rim of the Rift Valley escarpment.

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An adventurous Lake Manyara safari offers various activities to meet your specific interests. You may enjoy mountain biking, fly camping, horse riding, walks in a private wilderness to game drives in the park.

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Lake Manyara is a beautiful place to visit all the year round; though. the dry season of July to October is the best time for watching game that comes to Manyara from other ranges as water sources dry up.

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  • Jambo Raza: Everything was great from the the fantastic wildlife, the scenery, the people, the accommodations and the food. We went to Lake Manyara and stayed at Kirurumu Tented Lodge which was a great introduction for us on the safari.
    Liz and Gunnar Kristiansen - Ontario, Canada
  • Loretta and I had a great time on our honeymoon. We both also really enjoyed our time in the Serengeti. We were able to witness the wildebeest migration and saw literally over 1 or 2 million animals trekking across the plains of the Serengeti.
    Loretta and Danny Haag - California, United States
  • I booked my safari holiday through AfricanMecca. They were the most helpful company I have ever dealt with and I work within the travel industry. I had the most amazing time. The holiday went as clockwork with no hitches anywhere.
    Shelley Roberts - Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom
  • Jambo AfricanMecca Team, The safaris to Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro Crater and Serengeti were fantastic and very beautiful. All in all, the perfect trip for my son and myself. Thanks again and enjoy the pictures. My son took about 1500 pictures.
    Pam Dahl - Minnesota, United States
  • We took our decision on an extended and complex safari through AfricanMecca Safaris. They did a flawless job across the board. We traveled through Zanzibar (fantastic) Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro Crater, and Serengeti without a hitch.
    Chris Traub - CEO, Strategic Executive Search (SES) Group - New York, United States
  • The AfricanMecca Safari experience was great. All the connections were spot on and the lodges and camps were great - 1st class. The safaris were great with the time spent in Ngorongoro totally outstanding. We just totally loved it, a great experience.
    Bruce and Susie Ironside - New Zealand
  • We have returned from our African adventure and would like to thank you very much for your part in making this such a wonderful experience. We were lucky enough to time the Great Migration from the Serengeti, which was amazing.
    Denise Paterson - Belmont, Australia

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