Safaris

| Kanha Roars Back | Two young Royal Bengal tigers are gorging themselves on freshly-killed chital. This is the moment I had come on safari in India for. The moment everyone comes for. I feel safe atop my massive Indian elephant. (Tigers and elephants honor an age-old truce not to mess with each other—I’m hopeful, [...]

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| Tented Green Luxury | How can any green traveler resist this call of nature? Flying into the private airstrip for Bateleur Camp at Kichwa Tembo (head of the elephant) you reenact the famous final scene from Out of Africa by skimming over the very same glorious Kenyan plains, the zebra and giraffe and gazelle [...]

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| Cottage or Tent? | The Serengeti. The name conjures up mythic Africa, images created by writers the likes of Hemingway and Robert Ruark. The Serengeti’s oceanic plains in northwestern Tanzania are home the year round to an ark of wild things, but twice annually they host the world’s largest, longest overland animal migration. The [...]

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