Departure in the morning from Arusha for Lake Manyara National Park, Fotosafari. Lake Manyara, under the Rift Valley escarpment, hosts extremely varied environments, despite its small size (330 sq km, of which 200 are occupied by the lake). They range from the dense forests fed by the springs that emerge at the foot of the Rift Valley, to the savannahs, to the marshy areas on the edge of the lake. Numerous animal species, including large colonies of baboons, vervets and other species of monkeys, elephants, giraffes and 380 species of birds. Here, during the period from December to March, large flocks of pink flamingos settle, which then migrate to Lake Natron between June and October. Among the predators there are numerous leopards and lions; the latter, bothered by the humidity of the ground and by insects, have acquired the habit (quite rare among these big cats and found only in a few other areas) of climbing tree branches.