Situated some 80
miles from Arusha on the Western escarpment of the Rift Valley,
4,500 ft above the sea level, the lake Manyara Hotel overlooks glassy lake Manyara.
Each of the 100 rooms affords magnificent views of the Rift Valley, and the
Hotels facilities include a swimming pool, superb, terrace, and a boutique offering
local art objects.
The restaurant gets its daily produce from the local farm, and the bar is a
friendly meeting point where guests can relax with a cocktail in hand and exchange
stories of their days adventures. Thanks to its compact size Manyara National
Park is ideal for viewing a wide variety of plant and animal life in a concentrated
area. Nestled at the base of a dramatic rift escarpment, the Park's unusual
ground-water forest is a preserve for Giraffe, Buffalo, Impala, Zebra, Elephant
and most notably for Lion, which for reasons unknown, sleep in the branches
of Acacia trees. Manyara's most stunning feature, however, is the lake which
covers two- thirds of the Parks surface. Tinted pink by the myriad flamingos
that make their home here, it is a sanctuary for countless other birds species,
and is considered the best place in northern Tanzania to observe Hippo.
Ngorongoro
Wildlife Lodge.
Perched on the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater at 7,500 ft above the sea level
(with a 2,000 ft sheer drop down to the crater floor) . The Ngorongoro wildlife
lodge affords unsurpassed views over the crater's great bowl. Its 75 rooms are
centrally heated and the lounge features a fireplace and panoramic windows which
give on to a terrace serving as an observing deck for the crater below. The
lodge is a 3 hour drive from Arusha, and 90 minutes from Lake Manyara.
Listed as world heritage site, Ngorongoro is the world's largest unbroken caldera,
with walls rising 2000 ft. Straight up from the crater floor. Often described
as the world's eighth wonder, Ngorongoro offers the opportunity of viewing an
amazing variety of wild animal life in a concentrated area. with its unforgettable
blue-tinted slopes, swampy grasslands, lakes, rivers, woodlands, and hills Ngorongoro
supports such an amazing variety of animal life, its as if Noah's Ark foundered
here. This veritable Garden of Eden is home to Ostrich, Wildbeest, Warthog,
Long-eared foxes, Jackal, Hyena, Lion, Cheetah and the very rare black Rhino.
In all some 30,000 animal inhabit the crater.
Seronera Wildlife Lodge
The epitome of most people's vision of Africa, the Serengeti (Which means wide
open space in the Masai language) is Tanzania's oldest and largest wildlife
Park.
Covering some 6,000 sq. miles the diversity of its landscape comprises rivers
and lakes, the Savannah with its rocky outcroppings or kopjes, wooded hills
and vast grassy plains. Renowned for the beauty of its skyscape, the Serengeti
is home to Hundreds of different animal species, including 14 footlong nile
Crocodile which inhabit the Seronera river.
During the rainy season from November to May, the Serengeti provides one of
the world's most amazing natural spectacles.The migration
of huge heards of wildebeest and Zebra, accompanied by thousands of migratory
bird, including stork, falcon, kestrel, Buzzard, Swallow, Swift, Tern and Wagtail.
Build round an enormous rock in the heart of the Serengeti, the Seronera Wildlife
Lodge is the ideal place to follow the wildebeests as they migrate in their
thousands from Kenya to lake Victoria to escape the drought. It's the only place
in the world where this exceptional phenomenon recurs year after year, some
90 miles from Ngorongoro and 200 from Arusha, the Seronera wildlife Lodge features
75 rooms with private bathrooms, a restaurant and a bar overlooking the savannah.
Lobo Wild
life Lodge
Like the Seronera Wildlife Lodge the lodge at Lobo is built entirely of wood
and glass around clusters of large boulders, and is distinguished by its ability
to merge completely into the surrounding landscape. Its swimming pool and bar,
both dug into the rock, afford breathtaking views over the bushy plains and
savannah with their heards of Buffalo and Elephants, just 50 miles from Seronera.
And the Northern most lodge in the Serengeti, Lobo wildlife lodge features 75
rooms with private bathroom, and a restaurant.
Contact:
Jehome Tours & Safaris
Tel: (+254) (020)
Cell: (+254) 722 218862
Email: jehome@nbnet.co.ke