Lake Manyara National Park Part 1

A lot of People pass this beautiful park because they are in a hurry to get to the Serengeti. We decided upfront that we didn't want to go to the Serengeti because it wasn't the right time and we prefered to go to less touristic parks in the north and south. We didn't regret this decision for a moment. It was really beautiful. Not only we visited the park by car but the day after we also had a ride on a mountainbike through the park, mostly on the open area near the saltlake. That was so amazing. Only on a bike,  just enjoying the giraffes,wildebeast and zebra's with no camera between us. Amazing.

The parks is not big. Only 330km2. 2/3 of the park is water but at this moment the lake was dry for a big part. Around the park you have mountains. If you enter the park you go through forest with high vegetation and trees. In this part of the park you mostly see birds and monkey's. 

Baviaan

Blauwe meerkat

Neushoornvogel

Baboons(bavianen)

Velvet Monkey(groene meerkat)

Me?......I did not eat the green stuff.........

After the forest the area has a lot of bushes. There you'll vind a lot of bushboks, antilopes, dikdiks.

 Dikdik Antilope

The dikdik is a very small kind of Antilope. They always live in couples. If you see one the other one has to be around. 

 Bushbok

 Baby impala covered with flies

If you move further you leave the forest area and it will change into a dry flat area with at the side mountains and baobab trees. 

Also called (upside down tree) because it looks like the roots are in the air.

Baobab tree

 Beautiful nest of weaver birds

On the savanne area you will find, wildebeast (gnoes), buffelo's zebra's and giraffes. This I will show you in my next blog so it........... will be continued.