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Lake Manyara

Sheltering below the plunging walls of the Great Rift Valley lies the quintessentially serene Lake Manyara Tented Camp, tucked in an evergreen forest on bird-rich Lake Manyara. Lake Manyara National Park is where Ernest Hemingway camped on the hunting safari that inspired his book, Green Hills of Africa.

THE LOST IS BACK!

This beautiful female cheetah was here last three years ago. We were all amazed to see her around as cheetah are the most rarest of animals to see here because of the habitats of Lake Manyara which are not ideal for them to hunt.

Cheetah like more flat and open habitat areas like the Serengeti, for running. But now that Lake Manyara is almost dry, it seems to have attracted a few animals like the cheetah and lesser kudu and even wild dogs from Tarangire to walk across the dry lake to Manyara.

After disappearing for three years, the mother cheetah has now brought two youngsters, a male and female aged 1.5 to 2 years old with her.

Posted: Lake Manyara by Abdallah Hassan, Date: 23 June 2011

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