12 days/11nights in Tanzania with Wildland Adventures

About the Trip

Explore the most spectacular game parks in Tanzania. Travel with Wildland Adventures on this well-equipped camping safari designed to maximize your experience in the African bush. Spectacular game viewing is combined with hikes in Lake Eyasi and the Ol Moti Crater where you’ll experience authentic cultural encounters amongst the Maasai, Datoga, and nomadic Bushmen. Retire each night in comfortable, spacious mobile tents set in exclusive campsites with mattress beds, linens, and shared hot shower and drop toilet facilities. This safari is supported by a full camp staff, professional English-speaking naturalist guides, and spacious, 4WD safari vehicles.

Blackout dates: Based on availability and a minimum of 2 other paying passengers traveling on the same departure.

Includes: tented accommodations, game drives, meals and non alcoholic drinks, local ground transfers, airport transfer

Awards:

• Conde Nast Green List 2005
• Best Trip To Africa, Outside Magazine 2005

Starting bid: $1750

About the Organization

At Wildland Adventures, authenticity is our highest priority. Sincerity, good faith, genuineness - they’re all part of the ethic we embrace in approaching our world and the people and cultures we share it with. We’re devoted to helping our travelers experience the world with the honesty and affirmation that your choice of Wildland Adventures implies — a real world without artifice, that craves our understanding and compassion rather than our judgment; a world that seeks to welcome us rather than entertain us.

Of course, it can be argued that authenticity is an unattainable goal in travel. Our presence will forever change the place and the people with whom we come in contact. But if authenticity is characterized, according to its definitions, by “freedom from hypocrisy and pretense,” then Wildland Adventures can proceed with the confidence that our trips not only will strengthen our own humanity, but will help build the kind of inter-cultural, interpersonal and environmental bonds that enhance rather than exploit the people and places where we travel.

Green Practices

Ecotourism Pioneer

Wildland Adventures’ President was a founding member of the Board of The International Ecotourism Society

Environmental Conservation

Trips designed to develop an understanding of and respect for nature and minimize impact by supporting local regulations and management to control tourism, reduce plastics, use recyclable materials, electric motors instead of gas, organize clean-up treks, and support tree planting.

Travelers Conservation Trust

The Travelers Conservation Trust [TCT] was created by Wildland Adventures founder Kurt Kutay in 1986 as a non-profit, affiliate organization dedicated to educate travelers in responsible and sustainable tourism.

Ecotravelers As Conservationists

Wildland Adventures has taken steps to formalize the link between environmentally-concerned travelers and host-country grass roots conservation groups. Trip participants on are invited to become international members of a local conservation organization identified in advance by the Travelers Conservation Trust. They are billed by Wildland and their contribution is donated in its entirety in the name of each client as an individual membership in the local conservation organization.

Community-based Tourism and Cultural Authenticity

The direct involvement of indigenous people in organizing and leading Wildland Adventures assures the traveler’s experience will be an authentic, community-based experience that acknowledges and supports traditional culture and social needs of resident communities. The company supports small scale, community-based tourism and gives preference to hiring native peoples with less political power or economic opportunity to participate in their trips as planners, guides, cooks, and field managers. We help educate, train and hire indigenous staff and support micro-enterprise community development projects throughout the world.

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