ROCKY MOUNTAINEER ~ THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME Are you looking for the trip of a lifetime? One you will never forget that brings you in close touch with one of nature’s greatest achievements in an ambiance of maximum luxury? Then let me recommend one of Canada’s hottest tourist attractions, the unique Rocky Mountaineer experience….
Start or Finish your Alaska Cruise Tour on land!
Start or finish your Alaska Cruise Tour on land! Are you considering taking an Alaska Cruise? After all, the Alaska cruise is on the bucket list of most American tourists … and for good reason. It is a glorious adventure in one of the world’s last unspoiled regions. You can get a glimpse of Alaska…
Tiger : In Search of a Big Cat
Tiger. With CNN’s recent citing of Ranthambore National Park as India’s best park for “scenic tiger photos”, I was optimistic. We would actually get to see this majestic cat whose numbers are seriously dwindling. Or maybe we would have the privilege of encountering the famously reclusive leopard. Ranthambore is not in the traditional tourist golden…
Battielal and the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve!
Battielal was our naturalist guide for our game drives through the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve in Sawai Madhopur, a town located about 100 miles southeast of Jaipur, reached by way of a four-hour hair-raising, constantly bumpy but most interesting drive. Until 1971, the year Indira Gandhi brought about a constitutional amendment which took away most of…
Safari Lodge : The Tarangire Safari Lodge in Tanzania !
Safari Lodge : The Tarangire Safari Lodge in Tanzania! The Tarangire Safari Lodge in the Tarangire national park offers two features which you should not miss during any safari in Tanzania, two features which are unique and marvelous enough to make a huge difference to your safari experience. Though it does not lack in comfort…
How to get really close to the Giant Panda bears!
Giant Panda Bears. The Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding on the outskirts of Chengdu in the Sichuan province of China is one of the best locations in the world to get exposed to the giant pandas (called giant only to distinguish them from the smaller red pandas). More than one million visitors per…
Hakuna Matata and Ayubuisms !
Hakuna Matata song and Indian Ocean waves in Zanzibar Hakuna Matata – No Worries – is the mantra of Ayubu, our driver and tour guide. He put this Swahili phrase, which was the theme song of Disney’s The Lion King, into action and made our meticulously planned African Lion Safari into the trip of a…
African Lion Safari … A journal !
AFRICAN LION SAFARI TANZANIAN JOURNAL January 24 – February 8, 2012 Jan 24: 23 Hours of Travel … Taking Denis’ all-time favorite airline, British Airways, from Dulles to London, and then connecting for a flight to Nairobi, helped make this exhausting African Lion Safari trip into a more pleasurable experience … from the lounge where…