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Old October 16th, 2007, 11:40 AM posted to rec.travel.africa
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Just back from tiger safari at Kanha in India. Had a fantastic tiger
sighting with two male tigers right in fron of us. Woulf advise
wildlife lovers to see tigers in India.

http://tigersafari.blogspot.com/

http://india-travel-guides.blogspot.com/

warm regards
Uday

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Old October 17th, 2007, 09:07 PM posted to rec.travel.africa
Hans-Georg Michna
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On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:40:40 -0700, Seocontentwriter wrote:

Just back from tiger safari at Kanha in India. Had a fantastic tiger
sighting with two male tigers right in fron of us. Woulf advise
wildlife lovers to see tigers in India.

http://tigersafari.blogspot.com/

http://india-travel-guides.blogspot.com/

warm regards


Uday,

hate to tell you this, but India is not in Africa.

Hans-Georg
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Old October 23rd, 2007, 10:37 PM posted to rec.travel.africa
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Hans-Georg Michna
wrote:

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:40:40 -0700, Seocontentwriter wrote:

Just back from tiger safari at Kanha in India. Had a fantastic tiger
sighting with two male tigers right in fron of us. Woulf advise
wildlife lovers to see tigers in India.


hate to tell you this, but India is not in Africa.


When you tell people you've been to Kenya, don't they ask you if you
saw "lions and tigers"? (Maybe Germans are better informed.)

Slainte

Liz


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Old October 24th, 2007, 03:20 PM posted to rec.travel.africa
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Liz Leyden schreef:
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Hans-Georg Michna
Just back from tiger safari at Kanha in India. Had a fantastic tiger
sighting with two male tigers right in fron of us. Woulf advise
wildlife lovers to see tigers in India.

hate to tell you this, but India is not in Africa.

When you tell people you've been to Kenya, don't they ask you if you
saw "lions and tigers"? (Maybe Germans are better informed.)


My wife received an e-mail just yesterday from a german friend, asking
her if the kids had enjoyed seeing the "lions and tigers" on our last
trip.... :-)

Regards,
Hans
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Old October 24th, 2007, 05:34 PM posted to rec.travel.africa
Johan W. Elzenga
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Liz Leyden wrote:

hate to tell you this, but India is not in Africa.


When you tell people you've been to Kenya, don't they ask you if you
saw "lions and tigers"? (Maybe Germans are better informed.)


Yes, many people do that. Even worse: most Americans claim to have seen
'Water buffalo' when they were in Africa. Or how about those people who
insist they saw 'deer' in Kenya. Or antelopes with antlers rather than
horns...


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Old October 25th, 2007, 11:56 AM posted to rec.travel.africa
Hans-Georg Michna
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On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:37:36 +0100, Liz Leyden wrote:

When you tell people you've been to Kenya, don't they ask you if you
saw "lions and tigers"? (Maybe Germans are better informed.)


Liz,

hehe, no, it hasn't happened to me yet, or maybe once in a long
time.

There may be something with being much closer to Africa in
Europe. Maybe that raises awareness. From Germany a flight to
Africa can be cheap, convenient, and relatively short. This year
Egypt Air had a flight from Munich, where I live, to Nairobi and
back for some ¤340. Only Tue to Fri, or some such, and overnight
with a stop in Cairo, but if you're on a budget, you can have a
really cheap vacation in Kenya from here. Getting into the
nature reserves makes it more expensive though, due to the
rapidly rising entrance fees and the requirement to go in a car.

By the way, a couple of thousand years ago, in stone age, lions
were all over the place, at least at mediterranean latitudes. Go
back another couple of 10,000 years and you had cave lions in
Europe. Those were bigger than today's tigers.

If you had some time to kill, you could read, "Clan of the Cave
Bear" and its sequels.

I'm not even sure whether there aren't a few isolated lions
still in India. Haven't heard of isolated tigers in Africa
though. (:-)

Hans-Georg
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Old October 25th, 2007, 01:11 PM posted to rec.travel.africa
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Hans-Georg Michna schreef:
I'm not even sure whether there aren't a few isolated lions
still in India. Haven't heard of isolated tigers in Africa
though. (:-)


Indeed there are both lions and tigers in India. Though not much lions
there anymore.

In South Africa there are a few private reserves which have tigers. One
even breeds tigers to create a surplus in case they would need to be
"restocked" in India.....

I remember seeing an ad a few years ago for a game farm in South Africa
which was for sale. The text mentioned: "Included in the sale are 4
tigers. You may keep these or (if you can catch them) sell them".

Greetings,
Hans
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Old October 25th, 2007, 01:19 PM posted to rec.travel.africa
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Hans-Georg Michna schreef:
There may be something with being much closer to Africa in
Europe. Maybe that raises awareness.


It doesn't seem to work the other way around. I remember sitting in a
restaurant in Etosha in 2001. The (local) assistant manager of Namutoni
Camp came to our table and sat with us. We chatted for quite a while. He
wanted to know about our home country (Netherlands) and was visible
surprised that we didn't have wildlife like elephants wandering
about.... :-)

Regards,
Hans
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Old October 25th, 2007, 05:28 PM posted to rec.travel.africa
Hans-Georg Michna
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On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:19:00 +0200, Wildpicture wrote:

Hans-Georg Michna schreef:


There may be something with being much closer to Africa in
Europe. Maybe that raises awareness.


It doesn't seem to work the other way around. I remember sitting in a
restaurant in Etosha in 2001. The (local) assistant manager of Namutoni
Camp came to our table and sat with us. We chatted for quite a while. He
wanted to know about our home country (Netherlands) and was visible
surprised that we didn't have wildlife like elephants wandering
about.... :-)


Hans,

education in Africa is a problem. I visited some upcountry
schools in Kenya and wasn't sure afterwards whether those
schools actually educate the students or, rather, keep them
dumb.

This leads to many people in Africa being very poorly educated.
I remember those starry nights on the camp fire when I had to
explain to my African friends what the difference is between a
star and a planet, or what our sun is or how far it is away or
how far the moon is away---they knew essentially nothing.

Actually my thoughts go further. I believe that mankind cannot
really afford to let so many brains go to waste. I'm asking
myself how many children are dumbed down in Africa and kept from
developing their potential. A particular waste is the highly
intelligent ones that would urgently be needed to develop the
economy in their own countries and, for example, create jobs.

Hans-Georg
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Old October 25th, 2007, 11:11 PM posted to rec.travel.africa
Wildpicture
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Hans-Georg Michna schreef:
A particular waste is the highly
intelligent ones that would urgently be needed to develop the
economy in their own countries and, for example, create jobs.


Very true!

Regards,
Hans
 




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