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Lake Manyara is truly a beautiful shallow fresh water lake in Tanzania. The scenic beauty of this lake attracts huge number of visitors of all ages from various corners of the world. Lake Manyara enables the ornithologists to study and observe the behavioral pattern of 300 various species of birds like flamingo, grey-headed kingfisher and long-crested eagle. The water surface of the lake Manyara covers an area of 89 square miles.
The Lake Manyara National Park covers an area of 127 square miles. This lake provides shelter to loads of herbivorous animals like the elephants, impalas, buffaloes, giraffes, hippos, warthogs, wildebeests and baboons. The flood plains are located away from the forest in the fringes of Lake Manyara. Here the tourists can have a glimpse of the big cats like the lions and the leopards. The Lake Manyara National Park offers the tourists a wide variety of flora and fauna, which adds to the beauty of the place.
The Lake Manyara is 50km long and 16km wide. It contains huge deposits of salt and rock phosphate. The gigantic fig and the mahogany trees surround the lake and they absorb the nourishment from the crater highlands above the Manyara basin. The lake also supports adequate number of settlements and the natural splendor of this place really appeal to tourists of all types.
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