Lake Manyara National Park, which covers an area of 330 sq.km. of which 200 sq.km is lake, was made a game reserve in 1957 and registered three years later as a National Park. The park is located between the 600 m high escarment of the Great Rift Valley and Lake Manyara and is 130 km from Arusha so can be visited on a day excursion from this centre. At the Southern end of the park are hot Sulphur Springs called Majimoto, further along the forest opens up into woodlands, grassland, swamps and beyond, the soda lake itself. Its famous for tree climbing Lions.