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TRAVEL
Join us on one of these epic journeys to view wild animals and create lifetime memories.
THE AMAZON VOYAGE: GREATEST VOYAGE TANZANIA: A TREASURE TROVE OF WILDLIFE AND CULTURE
IN NATURAL HISTORY
Your first animal-viewing opportunity is at Lake Manyara
Join Brookfield Zoo members and Shedd Aquarium National Park, which boasts over 350 bird species:
members for adventure as an elegant riverboat becomes Verreaux’s Eagle, a variety of vultures, storks, swifts, and
your home for seven days. Gaze at the stars and hear swallows winging their way atop the spectacular cliffs
amazing stories told by guides as you float your way from overlooking a shimmering Lake Manyara. Flocks of
Iquitos to the confluence of the Marañón and Ucayali flamingos, pelicans, and storks can give the lake a pinkish
rivers—the western origin of the Amazon. hue. Springs in the park’s northern end support a dense
groundwater forest. Baobab trees are home to blue and
Hop aboard excursion boats to search for oriole vervet monkeys and baboons.
blackbirds, green ibises, and yellow-headed caracaras,
as well as monkeys and sloths. Folklore and science Next up is Ngorongoro Crater, an extinct volcano that
come alive as you look for pink river dolphins and plays host to lions, hyenas, wildebeests, zebras, porcupines,
squirrel monkeys. buffalo, elephants, and more—including rare black rhinos.
Explore Pacaya-Samiria Reserve aboard excursion At the famous Olduvai Gorge, where the renowned
boats and hike the rain forest on the lookout for Louis and Mary Leakey made some of archaeology’s most
capybaras, caimans, bats, and other animals—at night. amazing discoveries, you can tour the museum before
During the day, you may be able to find scarlet macaws, heading out into the spectacular Serengeti, where millions
hoatzins, black-collared hawks, and red howler monkeys. of wildebeests and hundreds of thousands of zebras
migrate each year, followed by predators such as cheetahs
Stop over at a riverbank village owned by the Ribereño and leopards. Explore the Serengeti Wildlife Research
people and visit a school and talk to the shaman. Centre to discover all you would want to know about this
Continue your adventure with more birdwatching, World Biosphere Reserve.
and try your hand at fishing for piranhas.
Walk in the footsteps of Hemingway in the Grumeti
Shedd Aquarium’s vice president of environmental River area, which features pools of fierce creatures like
quality, Allen LaPointe, will lead this trip. crocodiles and hippos. Also among this area’s residents are
lions and leopards, which you can watch from your camp,
April 3 to 12, 2020 Please call (708) 688-8348 or go to an elegant Victorian-era, tented outpost set upon a hill.
CZS.org/TravelPrograms for a full
itinerary and pricing. Please call (708) 688-8348 or go to
November 9 to 19, 2020 CZS.org/TravelPrograms for a full
itinerary and pricing.
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