Lake Manyara and Ngorongoro Crater
Visit Lake Manyara National Park and then on to Ngorongoro Crater for 2 nights, with a full day spent in the crater. Lake Manyara National Park nestles at the base of the Great Rift Valley escarpment and is two thirds water and one third dry land. Forest opens up into woodlands, grasslands and swamps and beyond is the lake itself. The lake provides sanctuary to over 350 species of birds including flamingo, storks, pelican, sacred ibis ,cormorants and Egyptian geese. Ngorongoro Crater is the largest unbroken caldera in the world. Surrounded by very steep walls rising 610 metres from the crater floor this natural amphitheater is home to many species of game and birds.
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After lunch in Arusha you drive to Lake Manyara and onto your overnight lodge.
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After breakfast, enjoy a game drive along the Lake shores. Elephant are often found browsing on the vegetation in the spectacular ground water forest, home also to troops of baboons and blue monkeys, wildebeest, zebra and giraffee are seen on the open plains and large herds of hippo inhabit the lake. After lunch at the hotel you continue to Ngorongoro Crater for dinner and overnight at a lodge on the Crater rim. The views from yourlodge into the Crater will be a lasting memory of your safari.
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A full day's game viewing on the floor of the Crater with a picnic lunch. The vast herds of plains game found here attract plenty of predators, mainly lion and hyaena but also cheetah and leopard. The Crater walls provide a magnificent backdrop to your game photographs. Dinner and overnight at your lodge on the Crater rim.
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After breakfast you return to Arusha for lunch where your safari ends.
