Mto Wa Mbu
Colourful village life at the foot of the Rift Valley
Mto Wa Mbu at a glance
Mto wa Mbu lies right at the gate to Lake Manyara National Park, between banana groves and rice fields, and is surprisingly diverse for a place of its size: people from many regions of Tanzania live here together. On a village walk or a bike tour you see the fields, the market and everyday life, try local food and, if you like, a banana beer too. After all, a safari also raises the question of how people actually live between the parks.
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Getting there
- From Arusha
- a little over two hours' drive, around 120 kilometres
- To the Lake Manyara gate
- the entrance gate is right on the edge of the village
- By air
- Lake Manyara Airstrip nearby, a short domestic flight from Arusha
The village tour is easy to combine with a visit to the park at Lake Manyara.
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