Lake Manyara National Park

From Tarangire we made our way to Manayara National Park via Mto Wa Mbo (meaning river of mosquitoes).  Because our washing had piled up, we decided to stay in Endabash public campsite in the park for only one night, and two outside of the park to get our clothes washed and dried.

A beautiful lake with bird life in abundance - who would have thought that you'd capture spoon bills, pelicans and yellow billed storks in the same photograph?  There was also a large number of stilts and, in the distance, hundreds of flamingo's.  Just stunning.

Manyara is supposed to be renown for its 'tree lions'.  We did see lion, but like most, fast asleep on the ground.  Other than lion, we spotted a beautiful pair of Klipspringers and some Impala.

 There was also a large number of butterflies throughout the park which took my fancy 😃.

 That evening at Endabash we met a game guide who was taking a young German couple around, who said that we should have rather entered the park at the bottom gate just a stone's throw from Tarangire and then travelled through the park to Endabash and then out at Mto Wa Mbo.  These are the little things that we missed in our planning.

 We left the park the next day and stayed at Panorama Camp where we managed to do our washing.  That night we were treated to a 3 course meal and a music show with acrobats.  Too cute!  Panorama Camp is very basic, but has a beautiful view over Lake Manayara.

 We had met another couple of South Africans who had stayed at Migombani, a fairly new camp (a year old) so we moved there for the next night.  It was absolutely stunning and highly recommended for other travellers.  It's a tented camp but they also cater for campers on rolling lawns and have a really nice restaurant, bar and rim pool overlooking the lake!  The ablutions were also marvellously clean with hot water.  They specially laid on electricity for us from the bar.

 We were sad to leave Migombani, but were excited about getting to the Ngorongoro Crater the next day!

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