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Yellowstone & The Tetons: American Safari
From £3165
Go where the buffalo roam as you get an insider’s perspective of two of the most magnificent national parks in the American West. Visit hidden gems like the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, hike along wilderness trails that naturally inspire the culturious in Grand Teton National Park. Combine this with hands-on cultural experiences to make your American Safari come alive with in-the-moment discoveries.
EXCLUSIVE to Bon Voyage in the UK-
Book your Tauck Tour through Bon Voyage and enjoy return private car transfers from your home to your local airport*. Your holiday will begin in true style from the moment we collect you from your front door and assist you with your luggage. Sit back, relax and enjoy the stress free journey in a standard of car that will reflect the excellent quality of your Tauck Tour.
Prefer to make your own way? Not a problem, we will reduce the cost of your
tour accordingly.
*our exclusive door to door airport transfers is for journeys from your home to within 100 miles of your local airport.
Your Tauck Tour Includes:
- Return flights from the UK to Jackson Hole
- 7 nights accommodation in sought after locations
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Immerse in a geological wonderland during three nights in Yellowstone National Park
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Learn about the grizzlies and wolves of Yellowstone with an expert naturalist guide
- Get an insider’s perspective in the national parks
- Hike in the Tetons with a wilderness expert; and saddle up for a ride on a working cattle ranch.
- Float down the Snake River along nature’s highway
- Airport transfers upon arrival and departure as noted
- 16 meals (7 breakfasts, 3 lunches, 6 dinners); service charges, gratuities to local guides, admission fees, taxes and porterage
Yellowstone & The Tetons: American Safari - A Tauck Escorted Tour
£3165 price per person (based on two travellers sharing)
Prices are based on off-season travel. Please call for your preferred date of departure.
Tour Departure Dates 2012: (subject to availability)
May 25th
June 8th, 15th, 29th
July 13th, 20th
August 3rd, 10th, 24th, 31st
September 7th, 14th, 21st
Day 1 Arrive Jackson, Wyoming
Tour begins: 1:00 PM at the Wort Hotel. Our welcome representative will be waiting to meet you at Jackson Hole Airport for an included transfer to the Wort Hotel, starting point for your American safari. A change of view and a change of clothes (hiking gear is de rigueur out here) readies you for zoomed-in outdoor adventures inside America’s first national park. Wild and wonderful, Yellowstone is all about nature at her most passionate. She smolders with hot springs, steaming geysers, fumaroles and gurgling mud pots. She’s dressed in snow-tipped mountains, lodgepole forests, trout spawning streams, rushing waterfalls, green rivers, yawning canyons and rocks exquisitely sculpted with an imaginative hand. She challenges with trails – some 1,000 miles of them – and thrills with animals, like bison, bears and wolves. Take in the raw beauty of the park on a drive from Jackson, Wyoming to Yellowstone for a guided hike – and a naturally inspiring three-night stay – in the heart of a thermal wonderland. Your wilderness lodge hosts a welcome dinner tonight with a feast of scenery and hospitality.
Meals: Dinner
Accommodation: Old Faithful Inn, Yellowstone National Park
Day 2 Yellowstone's Grand Canyon
The break of day in Yellowstone is eye-opening, especially on an early two-mile morning hike around the Lower Geyser Basin, one of the park’s top-three places for the most concentration of geysers. Breakfast waits back at the lodge, before we head outside again to see scenery that surprises with dramatic intensity. So much of experiencing Yellowstone requires up-close and personal contact with the wild world and today’s hike along the canyon rim does just that. First up is an informative geology walk with our expert guide at West Thumb Geyser. His insights will make the day even more fascinating. Continue on to Yellowstone Lake and drive through Hayden Valley, looking for bison, bears, wolves and other resident, often furtive, wildlife. Discussions about conservation, ecology and wildlife en route enrich your explorations. Lesser known than its world famous rival of a similar name, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is one for the record books - and photo album! The best way to appreciate its grandeur and diversity is on foot; our hike will reveal the immensity of the canyon and the surging river below. Dine tonight at leisure near one of the most famous hot-headed geysers of the park - and one-time laundromat - Old Faithful.
Meals Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 3 Rocks, Bears, Wolves & Man
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Meet nature on her terms today, embarking on a wildlife safari that promises a privileged peek into the world of bears and wolves. Your naturalist guide serves as your safari tracker as you hunt for signs of elk and charismatic carnivores – we’re talking grizzlies and gray wolves here – who may have plodded on through the trails moments before you do! Start your day with a geology walk at glacially awesome Mammoth Terraces. Then learn about the habits and habitats of Yellowstone's bears and wolves on our drive into the Yellowstone Wilderness. Enjoy a picnic lunch and stops to view Tower Falls and Yellowstone Caldera before arriving back at your lodge. More in-depth wildlife insights round out your day when a Yellowstone historian shares stories and sobering statistics about the interaction between wolves and grizzlies and men and their snowmobiles! Dinner is on your own tonight as you digest all that you learned - and saw - today.
Meals Breakfast, Lunch
Day 4 A Bike Ride in the Tetons
Yellowstone looms large in your memory today as we leave it behind for a journey south to Grand Teton National Park, a showcase of picture-perfect snow-covered mountains the way you might have imagined they would look. The youngest mountain range in the Rockies, the Tetons tower above Jackson Hole with craggy peaks, rugged canyons and glacial lakes that reflect every reason why you want to explore them. Undulating valleys, carpeted by sagebrush, cottonwood and aspens... rivers and ponds that provide homes for beaver, coyotes, moose, swans, eagles and more... and flat floors that invite bison and pronghorn to hoof it in view of the Culturious adventurer. Hop on a bike today to do more and see more with guides who make the intertwined history of man, mountain and beast come alive for you. You’ll be even more pumped up when you arrive at Jackson Lake Lodge for a two-night stay.
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
Accommodation: Jackson Lake Lodge, Grand Teton National Park
Day 5 A Raft Trip on the Snake River
The Snake River snakes its way in this part of the park without rapids, so today’s scenic float trip welcomes the Culturious with relatively quiet calm. It’s the perfect silent setting for reflecting on the sights you may see along the way, from fishing osprey and eagles to moose and elk who often amble on the shore. The rest of the day is all yours – make it magic!
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
Day 6 Observing and Preserving Nature
America’s backyard beckons on a hike with a local naturalist to places like Antelope Flats, at the foot of the Teton range, and Shadow Mountain, where staggering views of frosted peaks like the Three Sisters await. Continue on to the Murie Center, dedicated to a passionate environmentalist, after lunch for an engaging discussion on wildlife conservation. Then get a new perspective on wildlife art exhibits when you visit the National Museum of Wildlife Art, whose galleries house a stunning collection of paintings, drawings, and sculpture celbrating western wildlife. Your accommodations for the next two nights are at the historic Wort Hotel in Jackson, located in the centre of thw Western town.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: The Wort Hotel, Jackson WY
Day 7 A Day on the Ranch
Spend the moring exploring Jackson then channel your inner cowboy for an afternoon at the ranch. Billy Crystal immortalized his dreams of becoming a real cowboy in City Slickers, when he and his greenhorn friends challenged their comfort zones during a cattle drive. Now it’s your turn. Saddle up for a ride with ranch hands through the pastures of a 3,000+ acre working cattle ranch this afternoon, learning – and experiencing – a day in the life of a real American cowboy. If horseback riding is not for you, travel like a pioneer on a horse-drawn wagon; either way you’ll get an unforgettable feel for what it takes to work, live... and play... out here! We’ve planned a rollicking evening of cowboy entertainment for you tonight, the kind of real-life western fun, food and friends that have inspired movie makers – and travellers – for decades. Yee-haw!
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
Accommodation:The Wort Hotel, Jackson, WY
Day 8 Journey Home
Tour ends: Jackson. Fly home anytime. A transfer is included from the Wort Hotel to Jackson Hole Airport for your flight home. Allow two hours for flight check-in.
Meals: Breakfast
