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The jubileeventures.org Tanzania Beach Holiday Program combines international volunteer and internship placement with exciting 6-day beach experience and tours of Tanzania’s largest city of Dar es Salaam, and the Island of Zanzibar. International volunteers and overseas interns will have time to simply relax at the beach, swim, snorkel and tour these east African cities. The program also includes a 5 day tour of famous Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro and Serengeti national parks, giving the participants a broad view of Tanzania, Africa.

A Typical two week schedule of the Tanzania Beach Holiday Plus Program looks as follows:

Day 1: Arrival and pick up from the Arusha, Kilimanjaro, International Airport, in Arusha, Tanzania and transfer to host family home. Those

Day 2: Morning: registration and start of orientation. About 4 hours lecture at the home of your host. Topics covered during orientation lecture will include East African culture, history, customs, politics, geography, and necessary health precautions, and various other topics, such as the diversity of Tanzania life. Afternoon is free for exploring rural Tanzania and getting to know your host family.

Day 3: Intentional volunteers and interns abroad will work with children at a local orphanage or teach at a local school depending on what is available close to their place of residence.

Day 3-7: Tanzania Serengeti Wilderness Safari: (5 Days)

In Tanzania’s greatest Rift Valley wilderness parks adventurous volunteers and overseas interns will encounter over 450 bird species, and numerous species of animals including gazelles; impala; buffalo; wildebeest; the famous tree climbing lion; hyena; baboon; giraffe; hippopotamus, lions, leopards, elephants, rhinos, zebras, thousands of wildebeests, etc – over a million animals in total.

Day 3: Lake Manyara: After about 9 days of work, its time to have fun - overseas volunteers and Africa interns on this program leave Moshi, early morning and proceed to Lake Manyara National Park for game drive. Picnic lunch en-route, dinner and overnight at Campsite.

Day 4: Olduvai-Serengeti: Depart Lake Manyara for Serengeti via Olduvai Gorge with lots of game viewing en-route. Olduvai is a world famous archaeological site in which early human fossils were first discovered. It has an amazing landscape that resulted from the tectonic forces, which created the Great Rift Valley. Evening game drive. If you are lucky you may witness the great Serengeti – Masai Mara wildebeest migration. Dinner and overnight at Serengeti campsite. Visit Olduvai Gorge a site of archeological importance - home to some of the earliest ancestors of man.

Day 5: Serengeti: A full day of African wilderness experience in the Serengeti. If you are lucky you may witness the great Serengeti – Masai Mara wildebeest migration. Picnic lunch, Dinner and overnight at Serengeti campsite.

Day 6: Serengeti/Ngorongoro: Depart Lake Manyara for Serengeti with lots of game viewing en-route and in the afternoon. Picnic lunch. If you are lucky you may witness the great Serengeti – Masai Mara wildebeest migration. Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro campsite.

Day 7: Ngorongoro- Moshi: Morning game drive. Later game drive and picnic lunch en-route to Moshi. Arrive in Moshi late afternoon.

Day 8-13: Dar es Salaam Beach Holiday Trip (6 days)

Day 8: Travel to Dar es Salaam International volunteers and interns travel to and from Dar es Salaam will be by bus, leaving Moshi in the morning and arriving in Dar in the evening.

Ideally, accommodation in Dar es Salaam will be in a conventional hotel rooms or in makuti (coconut palm) thatched beach rooms with conventional hotel amenities including. Community room will have satellite television, telephone, mini-bar and restaurant. Some hotels will have diving school and tennis courts. Dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 9: Tour of Dar es Salaam City. After breakfast international volunteers and interns abroad in Tanzania proceed on a full day city tour of Dar es Salaam city including wonderful beaches and famous places including the national museum, Statehouse, Bismarck and Askari monuments, Uhuru torch, Dar Railway Station, Republic fountain, village Museum and Nyerere cultural center.

Breakfast, dinner and overnight at your hotel.

Day 10: Zanzibar Tour: Early after breakfast international volunteers and interns abroad in Tanzania start out on a two hour ferry or boat ride to the Island of Zanzibar.

Guided tour of the city of Zanzibar featuring the old town of Zanzibar, fondly known as Stone Town. The tour is covered mainly on foot, providing the guests the opportunity to stroll through the narrow winding labyrinth alleys and behold uniquely carved Arab doors with brass studs, carved balconies; the House of Wonders; the Palace Museum (People's Palace); Dr Livingstone's House; cathedrals and countless mosques; and Zanzibar's bustling market. Stone Town has excellent gifts shops with plenty of souvenirs handicrafts and splendid artifacts to choose from.

Dinner and overnight at an economy hotel.

Day 11: Jozani Forest Tour: Overseas volunteers and international interns will take a half day tour of this famous wetland forest, the only wetland remaining on Zanzibar island. The wetland is about 45 minutes drive from the city center. It is home to the only surviving members of the red Columbus monkey, an almost extinct species. The local guide will show the international volunteers to colonies of the primates and guide them through the delightful swamp in the middle of the wetland and small streams flowing into the ocean and lots of birds of the mangrove wetland ecosystem. The rest of the day is free to relax. Dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 12: Zanzibar - Dar es Salaam: Beach Relaxation. The entire morning is free for international volunteers and interns abroad in Tanzania to do what they like best. Simply relax, and enjoy the beach at the hotel, swim in the blue waters of Indian Ocean, or take a private excursion for wind surfing, scuba diving, water skiing, snorkeling, deep-sea fishing or goggling.

In the afternoon take a ferry ride to Dar es Salaam. Dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 13: Dar es Salam - Moshi: After breakfast, international volunteers and interns abroad in Tanzania transfer take a bus from Dar to Moshi.

Day 14: Morning - Evaluation of Program; Afternoon is free.

Day 15: After breakfast, international volunteers and interns abroad in Tanzania are free to leave at will. Those continuing with the Program proceed to project palcement.

Kindly note that during the Tanzania Beach Holiday Program we will provide excursion tours, gate fees, accommodation, dinner, and breakfast. You will cater for your lunch throughout the beach excursions. During beach trips for this program, accommodation is in economy hotels. During jungle trips, accommodation is in basic campsites, with three meals per day. At you request different arrangements can be made to suite your needs with costs borne by you.

The specifics of this program may be altered to fit into conditions on the ground.

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