WAYO MANYARA STORY

Описание: I’m often asked which wild place is my personal favourite. Without fail, my mind drifts back to the beach of the Endabash River. The rocks and the waterfall, the forest and the escarpment towering above it all. The river slowly snaking around its southern bend. Early morning light catching the escarpment as clouds spill out of the Marang Forest.

Elephants are never far away - often already standing in the river. There’s usually a handful of old buffalo tucked into the shade, troops of baboons moving through the trees, and the lazy flight of hamerkop overhead, mixed with the calls of turacos and orioles. It’s a place that stays with you.

Lake Manyara National Park, together with Manyara Green Camp, is by far the perfect place to start or finish any Northern Tanzanian safari. Manyara Green Camp is one of the very few camps in Tanzania where the wildlife truly comes to you. It’s an ideal beginning to a safari, with slower mornings to recover from travel, without ever feeling removed from nature or wildlife. In the same way, it’s the perfect place to decompress at the end of a journey, to slow down, reflect, and reset after the intensity of the Serengeti and Ngorongoro.

Manyara is too often measured against its much larger neighbours and unfairly labelled as less productive. In reality, it holds an extraordinary diversity of ecosystems within a remarkably compact area far more varied, kilometre for kilometre, than either Tarangire or the Serengeti. With new management in the park and successful invasive bush clearing over recent years, Manyara now feels noticeably more open, with daily lion and leopard sightings. Huge herds of elephants are once again moving into open spaces too, reshaping the landscape and gradually opening up the park even further.

It’s a park that rewards time, patience, and perspective a perfect place for a ‘slow safari’.

Jean du Plessis
Founder, Wayo Africa