Africa & Wild Dog Safari August 2009
AFRICA is calling!
Trisha's 2009 animal behavior-focused safari to Kenya and Botswana is starting to book. Join her, experienced eco-tour leader Barbara Gilmore, and Kenyan guide extra-ordinaire, Antonio Marangabassa, in a once in a lifetime trip to Africa. We leave on August 1st of 2009, and start right away at Daphne and David Sheldrick's famed Elephant Orphanage outside of Nairobi, a nursery and rehab center for infant elephants who have lost their families. We'll continue our trip watching wild elephants, rhinos, zebras and big cats in Tsavo West National Park and relax at night at Finch Hatton's historic tent camp. And there's SO much more... just wait til you see the birds! Africa is full of gorgeous and colorful birds everywhere. However, the most unforgettable part of Africa is without question the people. On every trip, Africans have overwhelmed us with kindness and hospitality. We try to repay their goodness by bringing books, paper and pencils to a local village school every time we go.
This part of the safari continues throughout the amazing parks of Kenya, and ends in the Kenyan Serengeti, the Masa Mara. Here we will watch the tens of thousands of wildebeest and zebra as they make their annual pilgrimage to better grazing.
The main safari is in Kenya, and if you choose you can fly home at this trip's end, or you can continue to Botswana, to stay with Dr. Tico McNutt and his African Wild Dog Project. Here we will have the priviledge of observing packs that are well known to the researchers, and have been studied since the 1980's. We'll stay at either Chitabe Camp or Chitabe Trails, both wonderful places surrounded by the sights and sounds of wild Africa.
You can do both trips, or either one, depending on your time and resources. Ah.. resources? Is it expensive? Yep. It is. (Trisha knows, she takes a niece or nephew on every Africa trip and feels your pain.) It's also truly an experience of a lifetime... Check it out....
http://www.classicescapes.com/documents/GilmoreMcConnellBots2009.pdf
or contact Barbara Gilmore at BDGIL2210@aol.com,