Lake Manyara Archive
Manyara Saturday
Posted by jimheck in Lake Manyara on July 4, 2009
Saturdays are crowded in Lake Manyara National Park, but we still got a couple hours of fun game viewing in. One of the really encouraging signs in Tanzania is how Tanzanians are using their own national parks more and more. I remember not too many years ago, you’d never see anyone but a foreign tourist [...]
Lion Failure
Posted by jimheck in Big Game, Lake Manyara on June 20, 2009
There’s an impression from TV that lions are perfect hunters. We discovered otherwise! On our day driving from Tarangire to Ngorongoro, we did the mid day game drive in Lake Manyara National Park. More than any other park, I love the forests here and would visit it even if there weren’t a single animal. The [...]
Oil Spots
Posted by jimheck in Corruption, Lake Manyara on June 3, 2009
A Tanzanian conservationist is denied entry to a Manyara tourist lodge, because it’s a “no-go for natives.” Can someone tell me what century we’re living in? The immediate fault is with the Chinese, an almost off-handed exportation of the racism and exclusionism in their own society. The secondary fault is with corrupt Tanzanians, who are [...]
Manyara Journey
Posted by jimheck in Lake Manyara on April 4, 2009
Lake Manyara National Park is small, often congested, yet still one of my favorite game drives. But she’s a fickle place; either very good or pretty forgettable. We drove from Tarangire Treetops to Lake Manyara in about two hours, and it would have been shorter except for the requisite stop at the Mto-wa-Mbu market. If [...]
E.Africa Drought?
Posted by jimheck in Lake Manyara, Weather on March 21, 2009
We abandon Lake Manyara because it’s too hot and dry. I think this is global warming. We entered the park around 11:30a coming from Tarangire. A midday game drive in Lake Manyara for safaris traveling north from Tarangire to the crater is commonplace. We take a picnic lunch and sit by the lakeshore watching flamingoes. [...]