2020 GeoEx Catalog

LEGENDARY EXPEDITIONS

The Nature of Tanzania SAFARI | 11 DAYS · CUSTOM

T  anzania’s wildlife is as rich and bountiful as any place’s on earth, but a couple of other things command our attention: the country’s gentle people and its soaring landscapes—exceptional, even for a continent as vast and soaring as Africa. Flying into the northern town of Arusha, we have a night to recover from jet lag, then we’re off to Tarangire National Park, the bird-rich waters of Lake Manyara, and Chem Chem, a welcoming and uniquely fetching spot with panoramic views of the Rift Valley’s western escarpment. From there we’re whisked to the quintes-

Finally, we fly to the northern Serengeti, where we once watched a cheetah languidly cross the plain to a kopje, leap delicately and possessively onto one of its smooth boulders, and groom itself intently before staring out on the savannah, tail twitching every once in a while— still as dawn but as alive and ready to act as a firecracker.

offered year-ro und from $22,800 estimated internal airfare $1990 park & conserevation fees $1460

Day 1  arrive in Arusha ✦  2  fly to Tarangire National Park ✦ 3  Tarangire and Lake Manyara National Parks ✦  4  drive to Ngorongoro Crater ✦ 5  on to Mwiba Concession ✦  6 & 7  Mwiba and southern Serengeti ✦  8  fly to the northern Serengeti ✦  9 & 10  Serengeti National Park ✦ 11  fly to Arusha, depart.

sential Lost World of the Ngorongoro Crater. Our lodge is perched on the crater rim, with breath-stopping views of the caldera’s 100-square-mile oor, abounding with nearly every promi- nent East African species. Next we make our way to Mwiba, a million-acre private reserve,

Ask about our extension into little-visited southern Tanzania, with bounteous wildlife and the country’s largest national park.

to enjoy more spectacular game viewing and to inter- act with tribespeople. Onward to southern Serengeti National Park, where we may get to witness the Great Migration. To the Maasai, the Serengeti is known as Siringutu, “the place where the land moves on forever.” The great spitfire, pilot, and writer Beryl Markham lovingly called the plain “as warm with life as the water of a tropic sea.” (Markham’s West with the Night , written with the generous help of her lover, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, is an African classic, almost as evocative as Isak

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Dinesen’s Out of Africa , which, if you haven’t read . . . get cracking!)

TOP  Dining al fresco on the savannah is a most civilized way to wrap up a day on safari.  ABOVE Watching a regal cheetah in the Serengeti.

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