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SUMMARY:Tanzania Safari: Human Origins & the Great Migration
DESCRIPTION:Experience the Serengeti’s Great Migration\, and view two significant human origin fossil sites plus magnificent savannah and volcanic landscapes\, including Ngorongoro Crater. Stay at exclusive and luxurious tented camps\, and travel in spacious\, four-wheel drive safari vehicles. \nHighlights are many:\n• Leading our group of just 16 participants is paleoanthropologist & naturalist Dr. William Harcourt-Smith and expert driver/guides.\n• Spend three days experiencing the spectacular “Great Migration\,” when hundreds of thousands of wildebeest\, along with tens of thousands of zebra\, amass in the Lake Ndutu area of the southern Serengeti ecosystem.\n• Spend three days exploring the Great Rift Valley and the remarkable Ngorongoro Crater\, an extinct volcanic crater 10 to 12 miles in diameter that is teeming with African wildlife.\n• Spend two days at Lake Natron\, at the foot of Ol Doinyo Lengai\, an active volcano\, and visit the archaeological site of Engare Sero\, where your AIA lecturer has worked for two seasons—it has the largest assemblage of fossil footprints on the African continent.\n• Visit the famous Oldupai (Olduvai) Gorge and its museum with your expert AIA lecturer\, learning about the important hominid fossils and tools found there.\n• Stay for two days at the beginning\, plus a day room at the end\, at a luxurious resort and spa hotel in Arusha and visit Arusha National Park.\n• Enjoy eight nights at luxurious tented lodges in ideal locations\, offering the amenities of a well-appointed hotel with the adventure of being under canvas.\n• Travel in Land Cruiser safari vehicles with extra sitting room and space to stand\, look\, and photograph out all sides of their large\, pop-up roof hatches.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/tanzania-safari-human-origins-the-great-migration/
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SUMMARY:Egypt's Hidden Gems
DESCRIPTION:This unique\, 17-day itinerary is the perfect trip for those who wish to revisit Egypt and discover lesser-known but spectacular Pharaonic wonders. A group of just 16 guests will travel under the leadership of an exceptional and engaging trio\nthat has been receiving accolades for 20 years: Egyptologist Stephen Harvey\, along with an expert local Egyptology guide and a professional tour manager. \nThe highlights are many and varied:\n• Spend a full day discovering the new Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM)\, plus another full day exploring the iconic masterpieces of the historic Egyptian Museum\, as well as the wide-ranging collection of the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC).\n• Gain exclusive access inside the Red Pyramid at Dahshur\, enter the burial chamber of the collapsed pyramid at Meidum\, and visit two mud-brick pyramids in the Fayoum Oasis.\n• Go behind the scenes at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara to see remarkable new excavations that are not open to the public.\n• Explore the necropoli of Beni Hasan\, known for its 39 rock-cut tombs with well-preserved paintings of dancing\, acrobatics\, juggling\, fishing\, hunting\, and weaving; and Tuna el-Gebel\, with huge catacombs housing thousands of mummified ibises and baboons\, among other discoveries.\n• Visit Tell el-Amarna\, which replaced Thebes (modern Luxor) as the capital of Egypt under the heretic 18th-dynasty Pharaoh Akhenaton\, and became significant for its monotheism and distinctive artistic style.\n• Enjoy two in-depth visits to Abydos\, where Stephen Harvey has worked since 1993\, including visits to the spectacular Temple of Seti I\, with its invaluable “Abydos King List” and chapels with exquisite reliefs; and special access to the subterranean Osireion (the symbolic tomb of Osiris)\, centered around a burial chamber once surrounded by water.\n• Visit Dendera’s Temple of Hathor\, renowned for its exquisite columns and a well-preserved\, painted astronomical ceiling.\n• In Luxor\, visit the evocative Ramesseum\, the funerary temple of Ramesses II (“The Great”)\, as well as the best-preserved temple of ancient Thebes: Medinet Habu\, the mortuary temple of Ramesses III. Also discover little-visited tombs of administrators\, governors\, and minor nobility\, featuring detailed scenes of daily life.\n• Enjoy luxurious or best-available accommodations throughout\, with at least two nights at each property. Relish three nights at the magnificent boutique Hotel Al Moudira on Luxor’s West Bank and enjoy its 24 acres of palm groves and exotic gardens. \nWith only 16 spaces available\, we urge you to reserve your place today by calling 800-748-6262 or emailing aia@studytours.org.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/egypts-hidden-gems/
CATEGORIES:AIA Tours / Travel Program,Education
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