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Going Wild On Safari

Searching for the perfect holiday gift for the person who has everything? If you have a bank account the size of Oprah’s or you know someone who is willing to loosen their purse strings to make sure your Christmas is extra special this year you might want to consider one of the following trips. Wildlife safaris are regaining popularity after suffering a slight dip a few years ago, according to travel experts. If you are passionate about the great outdoors and have always dreamed of coming face to face with big game, the following trips might be your ideal vacation … Continue reading →

Helpful Safari Travel Tips

When talking about adventure travel, many people look at overseas destinations. One of the top choices is taking an African safari. Without doubt, a safari offers a look into a completely new world, one of excitement and new adventures. If you want to take a trip like never before, then I recommend you consider a safari. You will have the trip of a lifetime. However, to make your safari the best it can be, I wanted to provide you with some helpful tips. Know Where to Go – Although you could take a safari in several locations, I would recommend … Continue reading →

Incredible Video: Baby Water Buffalo Survives Lion and Crocodile Attack

Over the weekend I saw the most amazing video. Or, at least an edited part of a video that’s become a YouTube hit. It’s haunted me ever since. The Edited for TV Version The version I saw was edited for time not for content. The video is over seven minutes long, but the clip I saw was less than a minute and some of the most dramatic of the footage. It showed a pack of lions chasing after a herd of water buffalo. A baby water buffalo gets singled out and a lion tackles it, sending it flying into a … Continue reading →

Hidalgo (2004)

The 2004 movie “Hidalgo” is based on the true story of Pony Express courier Frank Hopkins, circa 1890. Half-white and half-Indian, he doesn’t feel like he belongs in either world. His horse Hidaldgo is an Indian horse and is the best animal around. Together they have carried the mail all over the country. As the movie begins, Frank (Viggo Mortensen) is given the task to deliver a letter to the troops stationed at Wounded Knee. He doesn’t realize that he’s just delivered the order for the Army to kill all the Indians camped there, and when he discovers what has … Continue reading →

Hatari! (1962)

John Wayne plays Sean Mercer in this adventurous film set in the wilds of Africa. Sean is the head of an expedition sent to collect wild animals to be shipped to zoos around the world. They have built a house to live in and an enclosure to hold the animals they have captured, and at the end of the season they will send each creature to the zoo that expressed a need. It’s a great set-up and they each have their jobs down to a T. But one day, Sean gets a letter from A. M. D’Allesandro, a wildlife photographer … Continue reading →

A Far Off Place (1993)

“A Far Off Place” features Reese Witherspoon, already a very mature and well-grounded actress at the age of 17. She easily carries this film over some potentially rough spots in plot and script. Her character is Nonnie Parker, born and raised in Africa on the edge of the Kalahari Desert. Her father has been working for some time to help bring an end to the poaching activities taking place in the area. Elephants are being slaughtered right and left, their tusks being chopped off and stolen. Colonel Mopani Theron has been tracking these men down and giving them as good … Continue reading →