Women with Wings

Women with Wings is a women's travel club launched October 2006 by Travel Concepts which has offices in West and North Vancouver. The club's focus is creative travel for active women. See www.womenwithwings.com for the group's web site.

I am pleased to write that Women with Wings and Mama Tembo are collaborating on a wildlife and culture safari to Tanzania's north for early 2008. This is the best time to witness the wildebeest and zebra migration, recently declared as the Seventh New Wonder of the World, as well as foaling season of these antelope. The safari includes the famous Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area, but it also takes us off the beaten path with destinations such as Lakes Natron and Eyasi as well as the rarely visited Gol Mountains in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Our accommodations in these places, however comfortable, reflect and respect their extraordinary locations.

Although our focus on wildlife continues throughout, Lakes Natron and Eyasi allow for the cultural connections which travelers often remember as the highlight of their safaris. In Lake Natron we meet the Maasai and in Lake Eyasi the Hadzabe, the remaining numbers of a hunter and gatherer tribe whose cultural survival is tenuous. We meet the Maasai again in the Gol Mountains. We finish the safari in Tarangire National Park, one of the most attractive on Tanzania's northern safari circuit and known for its large resident population of elephants and magnificent baobab trees. Then it is off to Zanzibar, legendary island in the Indian Ocean off Tanzania's coast, stronghold of coastal Swahili culture, which offers beaches, snorkeling, diving, sophisticated shopping, flavorful cuisine which makes use of homegrown spices like nutmeg and clove, and a tangible sense of history.

I will post details of the tour once they are confirmed. There is room for twelve participants. You can contact me for more information or Liz Irving at Travel Concepts 604 986 2262.

The club has another important objective for making this trip to Tanzania: they plan on volunteering first. For more information please call Liz at the number above.

16-02-2007