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MVCC Tanzania Self Drive Bookings
You can book accommodation with bed & breakfast, half board or fullboard in units of 1 night (we do not rent cars).
OR:- our ALL INCLUSIVE african safari holiday includes the following
You can book in units of 1 week (7 nights) and each week includes...
- one day is usually taken for arrival and departure with enough time for you to relax in our extremely beautiful scenery! Depending on time available you can also go for walks. Either way the feeling of African serenity and the beauty of our landscape will enthrall you and make you ready for your dream holiday.
- For 7 days we offer you full board in beautiful en-suite bungalows. Our traditional, palm thatched open restaurant offers the opportunity to eat (3 meals a day) and simultaneously soak in the glorious views of the beautiful african Rift Valley stretching out below us.
- Beverages & bottled mineral water are served with all meals. Alcoholic drinks are available but must be paid extra.
- Your six full days with us offer the following fully inclusive african safari experiences...
- Two full day wildlife african safari trips (picnic lunch) to the world famous National Parks of Tanzania such as Ngorongoro Crater,
Lake Manyara National Park, Tarangire National Park and (by special arrangement at certain times of the year and a small charge) Serengeti.
- Two full day culture african safari trips (picnic lunch). These are not typical tourist traps but a unique chance to experience how the maasai, mbulu and other tribes live in their own villages. Trips to their markets are also included but the most amazing times will be spent with those people in their villages and homes!
- Two days in which you can choose a combination of any of the following:-
- As much or as little relaxation in and around our lodge as you wish. The privacy of your own terrace overlooking the rift valley, or lounging with other people at our bar terrace playing african traditional games or reading.
- Walks Galore! Adventurous or gentle strolls - all is possible: on some walks you
will be accompanied by a maasai warrior in traditional clothing and on other
walks, closer to our village you will be acompanied by a local villager.
- Visit our local town Mto Wa Mbu (Motowoombu), its friendly and gentle folk will greet you and you can experience every day Tanzania full of colour and interest!
- Birding, Tree and Nature enthusiasts have plenty to see in and aroung our lodge, or go out further into the country.
- ADVENTURE! if thats what you want then go off on a long walking safari into the savannah or the mountains on the far side of the valley - maasai guided walks. Foot safaris can be arranged but with a small additional charge for the guides.
- Your Flights are NOT included in our otherwise fully inclusive
african safari holiday. Alcoholic dinks are also excluded.
- Free airport shuttle (to and from MVCC and Kilimanjaro Airport, or Arusha Town) is included.
- Tanzania is a safe country (although any African city has its dangers, you will not spend any time in the large city of Dar Es Saalam). Tanzanian people are humble and gentle. In spite of poverty they are happy and will greet visitors with open arms - what little they have, they share.
- Africa offers many safari locations but few are so world wide renowned and easily reached as ours...
- Lake Manyara National Park is just 20 minutes away from us and can be seen from our Lodge. Ernest Hemingway wrote that
Lake Manyara is the most beautiful place in Africa. You will agree! And expect to see lion, hippo, elephant, leopard, buffalo, gnu, various primates and gazelles and much more.
- Tarangire National Park can be seen across the Lake from our lodge and is a ninety minute drive away.
- In 60 minutes you can be standing at the entrance to Ngorongoro Crater, driving through what many people believe is rain forest. It is actually ground water forest and it stretches from the entrance up to the outer rim of the crater. On the rim you have a most wonderful panoramic view and the prospect of a full day of adventurous wildlife tracking! Be ready for rhinos, lions, elephants, hippos, hyenas, large herds of gnus and zebra and much more!
- And let's not forget our reason for offering you a dream african safari holiday: net profits of each year's business will go to Tanzanian Aid Projects,
helping people to stay in the rural regions by providing better education and opportunities to work.
- to see more about our manyara camp, use the menu at the top of each page but here are some quick links...
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Lake Manyara
Ernest Hemingway once referred to Lake Manyara as the most beautiful place in Africa. This subjective comment may or may not be true but once you have seen it you will agree that it is incredibly beautiful as too, are the many animals and birds that can be seen there.
Alone its situation determines its wonder. The enormous African Rift Valley stretches from the Arabian peninsula to its southernmost point in Zambia and its East African section in Tanzania imposes a majestic background to the lake which is nestled three hundred meters below the chameleon like escarpment that rises sharply up to twelve hundred meters above sea level. Chameleon like because at different heights and in different seasons the vegetation displays not only different hues, shades of deep green, brown and yellow but also the rock itself acts as a kaleidoscope throughout the entire day at the mercy of the migratory sun.
The escarpment at this point acts as a climatic border promoting bands of vegetation that change dramatically over short east-west distances. Strips of Mother Nature’s earth which range from rich green groundwater forests through grassy acacia woods onto scrubby bush land which opens up to yellow savannah grasslands that border the sometimes grey, sometimes deep blue, natrium flavoured lake.
It is not the escarpment itself that is accountable for the climatic border but the crater highlands which seem to perch on the plateau that runs back from the edge of the escarpment and finally gives way to the masses of the inactive volcanoes Oldeani and Ngorongoro. At 3070m and 2512m respectively they form a wall to the east trade winds which bring long rains for four months of the year on which the montane, ground water forests, that closely resemble rain forests, thrive. Thus a green stripe crowns much of the area and only kilometres to the east in the lower flatlands at Lake Manyara, and on to the Maasai Steppe, savannah grasslands are home to Africa’s wildest game.
What makes this area so wonderful is not just the vast abundance of various creatures, including over four hundred bird species, but how you experience them. As you travel along the western side of the lake up to the escarpment wall, your eyes consume that multitude of variety in vegetation, colour and landscape, and you see, interspersed in this impressive flora is the African fauna that everyone dreams to see in its natural habitat. Leopards lurking in the bush, lions uncharacteristically lying in trees, impala cautiously browsing between the shade providing acacia and zebra accompanying gnus along the lakeside. Four of the big five reside in Lake Manyara National Park and every curve in the flat sandy road hides the next surprise.
Visit Lake Manyara National Park and go home with not just a pleasant memory, return satisfied, fulfilled, and in the knowledge that a piece of Africa has been preserved forever, both where it belongs and in your heart.
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