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TANZANIA WILDLIFE & CONSERVATION SAFARI JUNE 4 to 14, 2019 You are Invited to Join Lewis Greene Senior Vice President, Animal Care and Conservation and the on a Unique TANZANIA WILDLIFE & CONSERVATION SAFARI JUNE 4 to 14, 2019 PARKER TRAVEL Est. 1981 Parker Travel Associates, Inc. 1959 S. Power Rd., Suite 103-111 • Mesa, AZ 85206 Phone: 800-743-7644 email: [email protected] CST # 2096269-40 TANZANIA JUNE 4 to 14, 2019 “Jiunge na mimi Tanzania!” Join me in Tanzania! I can promise you if this is your first trip to Africa, “Africa will change your life forever.” Located in East Africa, Tanzania is known for its vast wilderness and wildlife areas including the plains of the famed Serengeti, lovely and quiet Tarangire, Lake Manyara bordered by the Great Rift Valley, and the vast Ngorongoro Crater. Throughout my 40 years of working with exotic animals from all over the world, this is an experience you don’t want to miss. There is no place on earth where you can see so many incredible animals up close and every day. You’ll discover this for yourself as daily game drives allow us to explore the habitats in which so many thrive. Very good are our chances of seeing the “big five” - elephant, lion, leopard, buffalo and rhino. Tanzania is also one of the best places for spotting cheetahs. Add to the list zebra, wildebeest, hippo, giraffe, antelope, dik-dik, gazelle, eland, kudo, and more than 1,000 bird species, and we’ve just scratched the surface of what this wildlife mecca has in store. Visits to and/or with some of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium’s conservation partners are also planned so you can see firsthand how these partnerships benefit the wildlife and people of Tanzania. If wildlife is your passion and Tanzania is on your bucket list, this is the trip for you! Lewis Greene Senior Vice President, Animal Care and Conservation If you have questions or would like to make a reservation, please contact Community Engagement Coordinator Patti Cattey at (614) 724-3558 or [email protected]. OUR DESTINATION – TANZANIA At 365,800 square miles, Tanzania is the world’s 31st- The hottest period extends between November and February largest country and the 13th largest in Africa. Tanzania is (77-88°F), while the coldest period occurs between May and mountainous in the northeast, where Mount Kilimanjaro, August (59-68°F). The climate is cool in high mountainous Africa’s highest peak, is situated. Three of Africa’s Great regions. Lakes are partly within Tanzania. To the north and west lie Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest lake, and Lake Tanganyika, the Biodiversity: Tanzania has considerable wildlife habitat, continent’s deepest lake, known for its unique species of fish. including much of the Serengeti plains, where the white- To the southwest lies Lake Nyasa. Central Tanzania is a large bearded wildebeest and other bovids participate in a large- plateau, with plains and arable land. Tanzania has a tropical scale annual migration. Up to 250,000 wildebeest perish each climate. In the highlands, temperatures range between 50° year in the long and arduous movement to find forage in the and 68°F, during cold and hot seasons respectively. The rest of dry season. Tanzania is also home to 130 amphibian and over the country has temperatures rarely falling lower than 68 °F. 275 reptile species, many of them strictly endemic. OUR ITINERARY JUNE 4 - TUESDAY. DEPART COLUMBUS 300 species of birdlife have been recorded in this park. Arrive Depart Columbus this afternoon and fly to a U.S. gateway, where at the Maramboi Tented Camp in time for lunch. An afternoon we connect with a flight bound for Amsterdam. game drive is planned for today in the National Park. Maramboi Tented Camp. (B,L,D) JUNE 5 - WEDNESDAY. ARRIVE TANZANIA Morning arrival in Amsterdam, where we connect with a KLM Tarangire National Park flight destined for Tanzania. Evening arrival at Kilimanjaro Tarangire National Park is located 75 miles southwest of Arusha. International Airport, near Arusha, where we are met and The park offers wonderful panoramas of wide savannah escorted to the Arusha Serena Resort. Balance of the evening to grasslands, dotted with open acacia woodland, studded with rest up after the long trip. Arusha Serena Hotel, Resort & Spa. large Baobab trees. Our (Meals aloft) visit will take place in early JUNE, which is Arusha Serena Hotel, the beginning of the Resort & Spa. dry season. The park is Nestled in the heart of a a dry season refuge for coffee plantation on the many migratory animals shores of Lake Duluti, near (elephants, wildebeest, Arusha, lies the Arusha zebra, gazelles, eland Serena Hotel, Resort & Spa. and buffalo) that spend many months of the year outside the The resort is the perfect park on traditional grazing corridors linking Tarangire with other place to relax before or protected areas. Elephants can be seen in herds, along with after experiencing the adventure of a great safari. The hotel masses of wildebeest, zebra, eland, hartebeest, buffalo and oryx, will give guests a true experience of a coffee plantation and is which migrate from the dry Maasai steppe to the gleaming designed as an African village. It is renowned for its collection of Tarangire River in search of water during the dry season. The river spectacular bougainvillea. Accommodation is housed in banana may reduce in size, but always provides some water for these stem thatched huts, grouped in semi-circles around tropical animals who gather in great numbers along its banks. Mobs of shade trees. All guest rooms have private balconies that boast elephant are easily encountered in the park, whether wet or dry magnificent views of the mighty snow-capped Kilimanjaro on season. The swamps are the focus for some 550 bird varieties. On one side. drier grounds you find the Kori bustard, the heaviest flying bird; the stocking-thighed ostrich (the world’s largest bird); and small JUNE 6 - THURSDAY. parties of ground hornbills blustering like turkeys. ARUSHA - TARAGIRE NATIONAL PARK Maramboi Tented Camp Our safari begins as we The Maramboi Tented Camp is close depart Arusha for Tarangire to the shores of Lake Manyara and National Park. The name located on the migratory corridor Tarangire is derived from of Manyara and Tarangire. This the Tarangire River, which 60,000 acre concession is set aside provides permanent for conservation by the local Maasai water for wildlife. In addition to a wide variety of mammals, over community. There are 26 tents & 10 lodge rooms at Maramboi Tented Camp. An impressive The Retreat at Ngorongoro landscape from the Rift Valley gives the visitor an amazing The Retreat at Ngorongoro is a meticulously themed lodge natural welcome to an area extraordinarily rich in wildlife. The set within 30 acres of land with a clear emphasis on nature camp offers stunning views of the Manyara National Park, Rift and birdlife in the area. As you walk around the lodge, you Valley, Ngorongoro highlands, and, on clear days, even Oldonyo will be amazed at how nature has been integrated into this Lengai - a sacred mountain to the Maasai. development. Due consideration has been made to ensure that space, privacy and close-to-nature experience is enhanced. All JUNE 7 - FRIDAY. TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK cottages are tastefully decorated, offering generous floor space, Enjoy a full day on safari, game viewing in the Tarangire National encompassing a dressing area, bedroom, and bathroom facility Park area, with as well as a deck. The lodge offers a gym, spa, swimming pool, a picnic lunch. If jogging trail, orchard and vegetable garden, and a lake view permission can be point. obtained from the Ministry of Natural JUNE 9 - SUNDAY. Resources, we may NGORONGORO CRATER be able to include a visit to the Tarangire Elephant Project (TEP), After breakfast, drive to and perhaps another conservation project in the Tarangire/Lake Ngorongoro Crater rim, and Manyara area. Maramboi Tented Camp. (B,L,D) descend into the crater for full-day game viewing with picnic lunch. The crater is 2,000 ft. deep, and considered to be the 8th wonder of the world. Ngorongoro Crater is the largest intact caldera in the world with an abundance of wildlife permanently resident on the crater floor. Here you can see a spectacular concentration of wildlife, including the big five. Drive across the dense forest, near the soda lake, and enjoy viewing a variety of bird life. Ascend to the rim and proceed back to the lodge. The Retreat at Ngorongoro. (B,L,D) JUNE 8 - SATURDAY. TARANGIRE - MANYARA NATIONAL PARK - NGORONGORO JUNE 10 - MONDAY. NGORONGORO - SERENGETI Depart for the Ngorongoro Crater region via Lake Manyara NATIONAL PARK National Park. Enjoy a picnic lunch and game drive, and the Depart for Serengeti National Park with a picnic lunch. The village of Mto wa Mbu. Apart from its abundant bird life, Lake Serengeti is famed for its annual migration, when some six Manyara National Park is also famous for its tree-climbing lions. million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 Then you proceed, passing through the town of Karatu, before zebra and 300,000 Thomson’s gazelle join the wildebeest’s reaching the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. The Retreat at trek for fresh grazing. Yet even when the migration is quiet, Ngorongoro. (B,L,D) the Serengeti offers arguably the most scintillating game- viewing in Africa: great herds of buffalo, elephant and giraffe, Lake Manyara National Park and thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala Lake Manyara National Park derived its name from a plant called and Grant’s gazelle. Golden-maned lion prides feast on the Euphorbia tirucalli, known as Emanyara in Maasai language.
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