To travel through Tanzania’s Burunge Wildlife Management Area, visitors must cross a highway that slices between Lake Manyara and Tarangire National Park. It’s a busy artery that runs through the continent, indirectly connecting Cape Town with Cairo.
Along the roadside, cows and goats roam, people peddle baskets, and motorbikes whiz by. With so much human activity, it’s hard to imagine that this narrow strip of land was once heavily trafficked by elephants and wildebeests rather than by trucks and cars. But traverse the highway, and the wildlife begins to appear: a lion dangling from a tree, a giraffe tearing leaves from a bush, and a herd of elephants silently passing by.
