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The Himalayan Yaks; A Photo Story

No day on our Mount Everest Base Camp Adventure would have been complete without having to spend at least 2 or 3 times dodging the infamous Yak trains that ply the trails through the Himalayas. My last photo story, The Sherpas of Mt Everest, looked at the human heroes this week we pay tribute to our woolly friends who carry supplies to all of the small towns that dot the landscape of this great mountain range.

April 9, 2010 / 13 Comments / Read More

Ranthambore, Where Have all the Tigers Gone?

How many tigers are left in Ranthambore? We ask our guide. “40 Tigers, but we sent 3 to another park because poachers killed all of them there.” He answers. Later, we pick up a paper and read that two tiger cubs were found dead in Ranthambore by two sick people that used poison goats to kill them. We think about our guides words. “Today we are in a section that has a mother with two cubs, we have a good chance of spotting a tiger.” No wonder we didn’t see them.

March 15, 2010 / 13 Comments / Read More

Yala National Park, A Photo Story

Having a high concentration of leopards, Yala National Park in Sri Lanka is one of the best places in the world to spot them. But the leopard isn’t the only animal you will see in Yala. It is teeming with life and exotic animals can be found around every turn. The Landscape reminds you of something more out of Africa than Southern Asia and it’s location makes it easy for anyone visiting the country to take a trip to try to spot the elusive leopard of Yala National Park.

February 12, 2010 / 8 Comments / Read More

Leopard Spotting at Yala National Park, Sri Lanka

Dave and I have never seen a big cat in the wild. We cycled down the continent of Africa and still managed to miss the lion. We went to the jaguar sanctuary in Belize and didn’t see a jaguar and we left India before we had a chance to go to the Tiger Sanctuary of Ranthambore or Khana. When we heard that there was a place in Sri Lanka that had the best chance of anywhere in the world to spot a Leopard in the wild, we knew that we had to go to Yala National Park.

February 11, 2010 / 21 Comments / Read More

Snapshot Sunday #1-Yala National Park, Sri Lanka

Welcome to the first of our Sunday Snapshots. This was definitely a highlight not only of this week in travel, but probably our entire ten years in travel. We actually spotted a rare site in Sri Lanka’s, Yala National Park. The elusive leopard. The Leopard doesn’t make an appearance for everyone and as we can attest, not all people had the privilege that we had. Several jeeps waited a very long time for it to climb out of the tree or even move. We almost didn’t believe that it was there. Only a few jeeps remained, when our leopard climbed out of a tree, gave a big stretch, a look in our direction and then he walked slowly to a tree stump in long grass.

February 7, 2010 / 16 Comments / Read More

World Wildlife Wednesday: Simon’s Town South Africa

If you are anything like us, we are suckers for Penguins. They are simply the cutest little things and we can watch them for hours waddle and swim. The Simon’s Town Penguins are known as the African Penguin or the Jackass Penguin on account of the braying sound that they make. Numbers are slowly coming back thanks to conservation efforts

September 9, 2009 / 10 Comments / Read More

World Wildlife Wednesday: Malaysian Borneo a Nature Lovers Dream

Hands down one of our favorite adventure destinations on the planet is Malasyian Borneo. Sabah and Sarawak are exciting provinces filled with beautiful scenery and exciting wildlife. We had never even considered venturing to Borneo during our Asian Adventure, but when a fellow traveler told us of a great deal on flights from Air Asia, well we just had to go.

September 2, 2009 / 6 Comments / Read More

Wildlife Wednesday; Chobe National Park Botswana

If there is one place in the world where you are guaranteed to see elephants it would be Chobe National Park. Home to the largest concentration of elephants in Africa. I have read different sources claiming anywhere from 50,000 to 120,000 elephants inhabit Chobe National Park. Whatever the actual population may be, you will see them everywhere.

August 26, 2009 / 6 Comments / Read More

Wildlife Wednesday; The Wolves of Haliburton Forest

About 3 hours north of Toronto way up in Central Ontario is one of our favorite places in the Province. Haliburton forest is a nature lovers dream. A place for hiking, mountain biking and canoeing in the summer and cross country skiing and dog sledding in the winter. But it is the Haliburton Forest Wild Life and Reserve that has kept us coming back.

August 19, 2009 / 17 Comments / Read More

World Wildlife Wednesday; Naturally Peru

There are some incredible places to view wildlife in their natural habitat and in sanctuaries. Unfortunately it is becoming more and more difficult to see wildlife in the actual wild, but there are some great places that have set up protected reserves for animals to live fee from the encroachment of urban developement in their natural habitat.

August 12, 2009 / 9 Comments / Read More