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3-Day Tanzania Rafiki Expedition

Offered by Natalia Safari Tours

Duration: 3-Day Tour Type: Private tour Category: Mid-range Tours Main Focus: Game drive safari

Overview

Our 3-day Rafiki expedition takes you to Lake Manyara, the World Heritage Site Ngorongoro Crater, and Tarangire National Park. It is designed to offer visitors with time constraints a short but very intense Tanzanian wildlife safari experience. You will experience the excitement of an African wildlife safari or even a photographic safari in three of the most spectacular national game parks in Tanzania.

Arusha - Arrival (See Getting There for more details)

> You'll be collected from the airport.
> Accommodations, Destinations and length of this tour cannot be customized.
> Additional accommodation before and end of the tour can be arranged for an extra cost.

Day 1 - Arusha to Tarangire National Park

Main destination: Tarangire National Park Stay: Siafu Serenity Lodge Meals: Lunch , Dinner
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If you’ve never been to Tarangire (and even if you have), you’re in for a real treat. Tarangire is filled with giants—baobab trees all across the park, as well as elephants, lots of them. But that’s just the beginning. Of the big cats, you’ll probably see lions, and cheetahs and leopards are around, too. And it’s impossible to miss the wildebeest, giraffes, hippos, buffalo, and zebras. Your backdrop for all of this is one of the prettiest in northern Tanzania, with a memorable mix of river woodland, open plains, and rolling hills. And some vantage points to take it all in.

Tarangire National Park
Siafu Serenity Lodge
Breakfast Not included Lunch Included Dinner Included

Day 2 - Tarangire to Ngorongoro Crater

Main destination: Ngorongoro Crater Stay: Siafu Serenity Lodge Meals: Breakfast , Lunch , Dinner
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Today you’ll visit Ngorongoro Crater, one of the most beautiful natural sights in Africa, a place where you’ll experience otherworldly beauty with extraordinary wildlife. Watch as, from above, morning mist rolls up and over the crater rim, and notice how the steep walls suggest a place unlike any other. Down below on the crater floor, explore a lost world preserved in a state of pristine isolation, one that shelters lions and hyenas, elephants and black rhinos, flamingos and golden jackals. There are also forests, hippo-filled lakes, a salt pan, and hyena dens, and you’ll never lose the sense that you’ve stumbled into a safari theme park where everything’s wild.

Ngorongoro Crater
Siafu Serenity Lodge
Breakfast Included Lunch Included Dinner Included

Day 3 - Lake Manyara National Park

Main destination: Lake Manyara National Park Stay: End of tour / no accommodation Meals: Breakfast , Lunch
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The park is dominated by a lake of the same name, which attracts large colonies of waterbirds. Particularly impressive are the pink-colored flamingos, but also many other bird species, such as cormorants, pelicans, and storks, can be observed here. A total of about 400 different bird species live in the park. The park is also famous for its tree-climbing lions, which are usually found in the central and open parts of the park. During the safari, you will also see elephants, zebras, giraffes, buffaloes, hippos, and many other animal species. In the late afternoon, you leave the national park & head to Arusha/JRO.

Lake Manyara National Park

Breakfast Included Lunch Included Dinner Not included

Arusha - End of tour (See Getting There for more details)
> Additional accommodation before and end of the tour can be arranged for an extra cost

> You'll be dropped off at the airport.

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