lounging in the shade under baobab trees. After dinner at your tented
LAKE KENYA
VICTORIA
camp you’ll meet members of the local Maasai tribe, who share some
of their tribal customs – and teach their dances! Meals BLD
Day 4. Learning from the Maasai Serengeti
National Park
Mt. Kilimanjaro
Start the day with a morning game drive in Tarangire, then learn what it
Olduvai Gorge
Ngorongoro (5892 ft.)
takes to make colorful beadwork – plus how to throw a spear and shoot
Crater
Kilimanjaro
a bow and arrow – from members of a local Maasai tribe. This evening,
National ParkKaratu
TANZANIA
Arusha
gaze at vistas of Tarangire from “The Viewpoint,” dig into a barbecue
National Park
Lake
dinner and take Swahili lessons around the campfire! Meals BLD
Manyara
National
Tarangire National
Park
Park
Day 5. A village school and a birder’s paradise
Maximum Elevation: 7,550 ft.
En route to Lake Manyara for wildlife viewing, meet and spend time
with the students and teachers of a new primary school that Tauck
helps support. Go on a game drive in Lake Manyara National Park,
Day 1. Arrive Arusha, Tanzania
teeming and birds of prey, and then travel to the 500-acre coffee farm
Tour departs: Kilimanjaro International Airport. A transfer from the
that will be your home for two nights. Meals BLD
airport to Arumeru River Lodge is included upon arrival; your African
lodge is located on the grounds of an old coffee farm.
Day 6. Exploring Africa’s Garden of Eden
Hop aboard an open-top safari vehicle for game drives and a picnic
Day 2. Kilimanjaro and Arusha National Parks
lunch in two-million-year-old Ngorongoro Crater, a great place to spot
Your safari* begins with Mount Kilimanjaro – one of the world’s highest
Africa’s “Big Five” – buffalo, elephant, lion, leopard and the rare black
mountains and one of its highest volcanoes. While we won’t be climbing
rhinoceros. Return to your farmhouse lodge for dinner. Meals BLD
all the way to the top, you can walk up Kilimanjaro’s Merengu trail, then
visit a woman of the Chagga tribe in her traditional home, where you’ll
learn the art of making banana beverages. Or travel in our open-top safari
vehicle to look for giraffes, baboons, flamingoes and buffalo on a full-day
game drive in Arusha National Park. Everyone meets
back at the lodge for a welcome dinner. Meals BLD
Day 3. The place where life began
Head for Tarangire National Park where you’ll see the
Maasai people and the second largest concentration
of big game in the world. According to Maasai legend,
Tarangire is the place where life began. Embark on an
afternoon game drive in the African savannah to see
elephants cooling off in a watering hole and big cats
Guests’ photographs say it all when it comes to cultural connections, from a visit to a
local school to learning traditional dance steps – and always let sleeping lions lie!
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