Exercise

PILATES SAFARI

Pilates Wildlife Safari, TANZANIA

May 22 - 31, 2012

Instructor:

Julie Fisher's is a Romana's Pilates certified instructor. She began her Pilates studies at age 13 with many other Pilates pioneers, such as Robert Fitzgerald, Peter Vaillancourt, Sari Meija Santo, and the most prestigious protégé of today, Romana Kryzanowska, with whom she ultimately received her Certification. She also has a B.S. in Health Education, minor in Dance and became certified as a personal trainer in 1992. She is qualified to teach in over 300 Pilates studios internationally, Frankfurt Germany being the first she experienced outside the U.S. with Mayra Rodriguez de Matthews.

She loves to teach and enjoys the journey together with her clients as they advance and improve their health and well-being. Julie especially loves to watch clients grow from their initial experience of what may have begun as a chore to a lifestyle.

Major Destinations:

Lake Manyara National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, and Serengeti National Park

Activities:

Game Drives and Tribal Visits

Exercise Activity:

Daily Pilates Mat Classes

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DAY 1 - TUESDAY, MAY 22: DEPART U.S.

DAY 2 - WEDNESDAY, MAY 23: ARRIVE IN TANZANIA

Arrive at Kilimanjaro International Airport in the evening. Transport to Kia Lodge for your overnight.

DAY 3 - THURSDAY, MAY 24: LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK

After morning mat class, followed by breakfast, depart for Lake Manyara National Park. Lake Manyara is a shallow, alkaline lake at the base of the Rift Valley escarpment. The park has a remarkably wide diversity of habitats, from grassy floodplain to thick acacia woodland to lush and extensive patches of groundwater forest. The park is famous for its tree-climbing lions, its prolific elephants, and great birding, with almost 400 species recorded. The day will be spent on game drives in the park, with a picnic lunch at a designated site.

Overnight at Kirurumu Tented Lodge.

DAY 4 - FRIDAY, MAY 25: LAKE EYASI

After your morning exercise and breakfast, drive to Lake Eyasi in time for lunch. In the afternoon accompany Ndatoga people on a hunting-gathering walk. The Ndatoga are a herding tribe and your tour will show you the village blacksmith and houses where they live.

Overnight at Tindiga Tented Camp.

DAY 5 - SATURDAY, MAY 26: THE HADZABE, NGORONGORO CRATER

After breakfast, visit with the Hadzabe and join them for a hunting walk. Their language resembles the click languages of southern Africa. They live entirely off the bush and from hunting, generally small antelopes and baboons. After, depart for Ngorongoro Crater. The Ngorongoro Crater is often called "Africa's Eden" and the "8th Natural Wonder of the World." A visit to the crater is a main attraction for tourists coming to Tanzania and a definite world-class attraction. Within the crater rim, large herds of zebra and wildebeest graze while sleeping lions laze nearby in the sun. Spend the rest of the day in the crater, with a stop for a picnic lunch at the hippo pool. Evening group exercise around the pool or grounds.

Overnight on the crater rim at Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge.

DAY 6 - SUNDAY, MAY 27: OL'DUVAI GORGE

After your morning exercise and breakfast, depart for Serengeti National Park. This area of East Africa's savannah plains has attracted humans for millennia. The whole area is now colloquially known as the short grass plains and is the preferred habitat of hundreds of thousands (perhaps more than a million) of wildebeest. They feel safest here, choosing this location year after year to give birth to their young. The wildebeest migration should be peaking at the time of your visit. Visit Ol'duvai Gorge, where Louis and Mary Leakey discovered the hominoid remains of a 1.8 million-year-old skeleton of Australopithecus boisei, one of the distinct links of the human evolutionary chain. In a small canyon just north of the crater, the Leakeys and their international team of archaeologists unearthed the ruins of at least three distinct hominoid species, and also came upon a complete series of hominoid footprints estimated to be over 3.7 million years old. Evacuated fossils show that the area is one of the oldest sites of hominoid habitation in the world. Game drives in the afternoon.

Overnight at Serengeti Sopa Lodge.

DAY 7 & 8 - MONDAY & TUESDAY, MAY 28 & 29: SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK

Morning and evening game drives in the Serengeti with stops for group exercise. Relaxation midday.

Overnight at Serengeti Sopa Lodge.

DAY 9 - WEDNESDAY, MAY 30: ARUSHA

After breakfast and Pilates mat class, fly to Arusha or continue on to Zanzibar. If returning to the U.S., lunch will be provided to Arusha, as well as a day room at Kia Lodge.

DAY 10 - THURSDAY, MAY 31: RETURN TO U.S.

COST:

$3,695 per person, based on double occupancy, land-only.

Zanzibar Extension, TANZANIA

May 30 - June 3, 2012

DAY 9 - WEDNESDAY, MAY 30: STONE TOWN

Fly from Arusha to Zanzibar. In the afternoon, tour Stone Town, Zanzibar's old quarter. Stone Town is a fascinating maze of narrow streets and alleyways which lead you past numerous old houses and mosques, ornate palaces, shops and bazaars, and the slave quarters next to the Anglican Church. Arrive to the east coast of Zanzibar for dinner.

Overnight at Shooting Star Lodge.

Shooting Star is a boutique resort located on the eastern beaches of Zanzibar. It is one of the most romantic, intimate and effortlessly stylish options, and benefits from a small but lovely "infinity pool," the absence of nearby resorts to spoil views or the silence, and one of Zanzibar's best restaurants.

DAY 10 & 11 - THURSDAY & FRIDAY, MAY 31 & JUNE 1: BEACH ACTIVITIES

Full day at the beach. Activities available ala carte. Meals and overnight at Shooting Star.

DAY 12 - SATURDAY, JUNE 2: SPICE TOUR

After breakfast, undertake a spice tour. Over the centuries spices such as cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, pepper, and many other spices that made Zanzibar an international trading center. The tour also includes a visit to the Kidichi Persian Baths, built in 1832 and the Maruhubi Palace ruins. After the tour, fly to Dar es Salaam to catch your return flight out.

DAY 12 - SUNDAY, JUNE 3: RETURN TO U.S.