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TRAVEL
Join us on one of these epic journeys to view wild animals and create lifetime memories.
TANZANIA: A TREASURE TROVE OF WILDLIFE AND CULTURE THE AMAZON VOYAGE: GREATEST VOYAGE
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Your first animal-viewing opportunity is at Lake Manyara Join Brookfield Zoo members and Shedd Aquarium
National Park, which boasts over 350 bird species: You’ll members for adventure as an elegant riverboat becomes
see Verreaux’s eagles and a variety of vultures, swifts, your home for seven days. Gaze at the stars and hear
and swallows winging their way atop the spectacular amazing stories told by guides as you float your way from
cliffs 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 bird-watching
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, Please call (708) 688-8348 or go to
an elegant Victorian-era, tented outpost set upon a hill. March 19 to 27, 2021 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.
February Travel Night
For details, go to
CZS.org/TravelPrograms
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