Friday, 28 February 2014

African Safari

Are you eager to take a closer look at crocodiles, hippos, lions, and zebras? Don’t you know what to start with? Of course you have to go on a safari. One of the variants is to travel to Serengeti. Have you ever heard of the Ngorongoro Crater and the Pink Lake. There are some national parks in Africa, where you can go on a safari. These are small and big, popular and unknown parks, in which you can face up to unexplored wilderness. The dark continent becomes more and more popular. Tanzania and Kenya are considered to be the most visited countries, which provide numerous opportunity of going on African safari. 
The Serengeti National Park and the Ngorongoro Crater are located in Tanzania; the Maasai Mara National Reserve is to be found in Narok County, Kenya. The Tanzanian city of Arusha is considered to be the capital of the African safari. From Arusha you can easily get to the most famous national parks.

Lake Manyara National Park
The park is located within 130 km from Arusha. Here you can meet practically all the animals with exception of leopards and cheetahs. Pink flamingos which live on the lake of Manyara, and lions, which can climb the the trees. In fact the local lions spend the most part of their lives on the trees, as the forests are extremely dense in this region, and the predators have got into the way of tracing their prey down from above.

Serengeti National Park
The Serengeti is located within 320 km from Arusha in Tanzania. Serengeti is translated as ”endless plain” from the Maasai language. But in this park there are savannahs, riveres, and lakes as well. The territory of the park is mostly populated with antelopes and lions. In addition you can meet numerous elephants, rhinos, leopards and buffaloes, crocodiles and hyenas, giraffes, jackals, baboons and foxes. 
Tazania Maasai Lion
The park is inhabited with 35 species of plain animals and 500 species of birds. In the wet season (November-Mai) millions of antilopes, zebras.

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