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Sri Lanka: A Land Like No Other (Part 11) Yala Park
Yala is the most visited National Park in Sri Lanka. It’s remotely situated in the southeast corner of the country, a long day’s drive from Colombo, and covers almost 1000 square kilometers (378 sq mi). Originally a hunting preserve, it was designated a wildlife sanctuary in 1900 and became one of the country’s first national parks in 1938. Yala is known for its large variety of animals and is the best place in Sri Lanka to spot wildlife, especially herds of Sri Lankan elephants, but also deer, crocodile, boar, and aquatic birds; it has one of the highest densities of leopards in the world …
.All Trips / Africa / Tanzania
Perspectives on East Africa: 3) Lake Manyara National Park
The last safari destination we visited in Tanzania was Lake Manyara National Park. We left our camp after breakfast and drove the Ngorongoro Crater Rim Drive through misty rain-forest We stopped for some memorable views and then left the Ngorongoro Crater. After having spent a week in the wilderness, the transition to “civilization” was abrupt and not pretty, with many poorly kept homes, scrawny domesticated animals, and lots of people. We drove east past farming fields, though with no crops really growing — off season, I guess (normally corn, wheat, millet and coffee are grown). There were many towns and villages but no cities and also no wildlife.
By late morning our travels bring us to Lake Manyara National …
Tagged Lake Manyara National Park, Safari, Tanzania, wildlife
.All Trips / Africa / Tanzania
Perspectives on East Africa: 2) Ngorongoro Crater and the Ulduvai Gorge.
In all my travels, visiting the Ngorongoro Crater remains one of my most precious experiences. The setting of this collapsed volcanic crater, its many animals and beautiful landscapes are still fresh in my mind. A nomad I met in Guatemala once described his visit to the Ngorongoro Crater like “visiting Noah’s Ark” — now I know why, because there are so many different animal species here. It’s a destination worth flying half way around the world to see by itself. When you combine it with a visit to the Serengeti and a trek up Mt. Kilimanjaro, you’ve an itinerary that’s hard to beat!
The journey to the Ngorongoro Crater:
From Serengeti National Park we drove overland heading …
.All Trips / Africa / Tanzania
Perspectives on East Africa: 1) Serengeti National Park. “The place where the land moves on forever”
It takes a l-o-o-o-ong time to fly from the western USA to Tanzania, at the limits of my travel endurance really. But I’m about to head out on one of my greatest adventures, a week’s wilderness safari in Tanzania followed by a trek to the “roof of Africa”, the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Both have been on my travel “bucket list” for a long time and when I saw Wilderness Travel offer them as a combination, coupled with a seminar, “Perspectives on East Africa”, I knew it was time to go.
The journey to the Serengeti:
My flight is on KLM airlines and the first leg is a nonstop red-eye flight, Los Angeles to Amsterdam, via …
