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Our Tour Director is Steve Sara
Just got an email from the Tauck tour director for our tour beginning July 9th. His name is Steve Sara. Anyone have experience with him on past tours? He sent a nice check list of tips for the tour with a lot of great information.
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Never heard of him on any of our Africa tours. Back in 2007 when we first decided to travel with Tauck to Africa, , there were just two choices, K and T or Elegant South Africa. Since then, the choices have exploded year on year, so more and more TDs must be hired. Another reason why none of our Africa tours have been full capacity. We have had two TDs twice on the tours. We like the ones who live in Africa best.
I wonder if the TDs are finding people are turning up with the totally wrong expectations of what it’s all about, we have certainly found that on some of our tours and it’s caused headaches for the TDs so they are emailing people in advance since the Tauck info is not really adequate.
Just back yesterday from our Mountain Gorilla Safari: Kenya, Tanzania & Rwanda. UNBELIEVABLE!! Best Tauck trip we have ever been on. Created memories that will last forever. Our tour director, Steve Sara, was fantastic. Made this trip very special. I celebrated my 80th birthday on this trip, and was worried that I would have to pass up on the walk with gorillas segment, because I might not be able to do the walking. Well, Steve arranged for my wife and I both to be carried in sedan chairs by porters to a point near the gorillas where we could then walk the remaining distance to see the gorillas. This involved a basket with cushions and pillows that was carried by 4 porters. You laid down in the basket. It was expensive ($320 each for 8 porters and the litter) but well worth it. We pushed through the brush and were 5 feet away from a big silverback! We spent an hour with his group of gorillas, that included a number of infants. Wow!