Vuvuzela
South Africa!
3 Weeks from C$3499 per person, ex Canada
Discover
this vibrant country on a 3 week adventure at a price you can TOOT about!
Tour
highlights: Johannesburg, Private Game Reserve, Bush walk, open-vehicle Game
Drive, Hazyview, Kruger National Park, Swaziland, Zululand Game Reserve, beach
time, Durban, Drakensberg Mountains, Golden Gate National Park, Karoo, Graaff
Reinet, Garden Route, Otter Trail, Knysna, Cape Town, wine farm & Table
Mountain.
Price
includes return flights from Eastern Canada; accommodations in tented camps,
guesthouses, log cabins, guestfarm, restcamps and Inns; most meals; all park
entrance fees; airport transfers; transportation in special overland vehicle
driven by an experienced driver/guide.
Contact us
to plan your affordable African Vacation!
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Best
Eco Lodges features the top eco friendly hotels, eco resorts and green hotels
in the world. They aim to create awareness about genuine sustainable lodging. See
www.best-ecolodges.com
Kapawi
Ecolodge & Reserve is located in one of the most remote
and well protected parts of the Ecuadorian Amazon and is accessible only by air.
Deep in the Achuar people's territory, it built with traditional Achuar
architecture, uses solar energy and is best known as one of the world's first
tribe-run lodges. You will have the unique opportunity to meet Achuars in their
villages, try manioc beer and consult with shamans. Double room from US$695 per person for 3 nights
Black
Sheep Inn, perched at 10,500 feet in the Ecuadorian highlands
south of Quito, has transparent roofs to let sunlight into the indoor flower
gardens. The inn has an organic garden, they recycle and use Solar and Wind
energy. After a long hike relax around their wooden fireplaces, sip Ecuadorian
Rum and leave your tensions behind in the sauna. Double room from US$80 per person per night.
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send off an email and would get a response just minutes later! We would
recommend her to a friend or family member in a heartbeat! In fact, we are
already planning to book with Chris again. Thanks for the great work Chris!
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Discover Unspoiled
Galapagos
Visiting
the Galapagos is a very special and unique experience. Darwin's
inspiration for 'The Origin of Species', the Galapagos are home to species
found nowhere else on earth. You may find yourself stepping over snoozing seals and iguanas or watching close-up the courting rituals of Blue-footed
Boobies, albatross, or frigate birds.
A mask and snorkel reveals another exciting world;
turtles, sharks, rays and colourful reef fish are abundant and sea lions just
love to come and play! Our small yachts are ideal for low impact tourism,
getting where the cruise ships can't go and for viewing the occasional pod of
dolphins dancing in our bow wave. Small group sizes, expert guides and
excellent cuisine all help to make this a unique and magical experience.
Contact us for
your unforgettable vacation!
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SPECIAL GALAPAGOS
DEPARTURE January 2011
Enjoy
10 Days exploring
colourful Equador and the enchanting Galapagos Archipelago ~ from US$3779
Our
Galapagos connection is a sustainable tour operator with more than 10 years
experience in islands. They are known for their high quality of service and are
involved with island conservation projects.
17
January 2011: arrive Quito and overnight.
18 Jan: Flight to Galapagos & board our
First Class Motor Yacht
The next 7 days are spent sailing from island
to inlet, from bay to point, exploring
this archipelago from both land and sea.
Highlights include a visit to Charles
Darwin Research Station, incredible wildlife encounters, daily opportunities
for swimming and snorkelling, local naturalist guide (certified by the
Galapagos National Park).  25 Jan: disembark your comfortable yacht
and return flight to Quito. Overnight at
3 star hotel.
26 Jan: after breakfast check-out of hotel.
See 'Eco-friendly Lodges' for possible extensions.
TOUR PRICE:10 days from US$3779** per person sharing a
room & cabin, including 2
overnights in Quito with American Breakfast | flights between Quito and from
the Galapagos Islands | 7 night cruise in the Galapagos Islands 
FACILITIES ABOARD THE FIRST CLASS MOTOR YACHT: Comfortable
double cabins with lower beds and outside views. All have private bathrooms, air conditioning
and hair dryer. Dining room, bar and lounge, coffee station,
TV and DVD, library and sundeck.
Max guests: 16
Ask us to book your
Galapagos Adventure!
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The Wildebeest Migration is ON
The Migration appears to be early this year,
having already commenced in the Serengeti. Typically taking place between the
end of July and November, it is dubbed the 'Greatest Wildlife Show
on Earth'. The animals migrate from the short-grass plains of the Serengeti to
fresh pasture in the grasslands of the Mara, thus creating one of nature's
grandest spectacles.
Featuring over
one-and-a-half million wildebeest, accompanied by half as many zebras and
gazelles, the migration covers an 800-kilometer circuit and weaves birth, life and death into
a spectacular tapestry, which illustrates the concept of 'the survival of the
fittest' in all of its tragic, comic, violent and awesome splendour. 
Moving in groups of up to 20,000 at a time they thunder across the
plateau, hesitating only briefly to cross the Mara River, where many fall prey
to the waiting crocodiles. Towards the end of October they begin crossing back
into Tanzania.
Did you know ... that the migration is a comparatively
recent phenomenon? Prior to 1969 only a few wildebeest spilled over from the
Serengeti, and only in exceptionally dry years.
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Migration Safari - Special Departure
A tented safari in Africa is one
of the world's great travel adventures. Spending the night under canvas in
the bush gives you a feeling of really living in the wild. The romance of an
open campfire under a magnificent sky full of stars is undeniable, and night-time in
the wild is magical, when the air rings with whooping calls of
hyenas and dawn is heralded by the unforgettable sound of lions roaring.
Book now to join our Escorted 13 day MIGRATION
SAFARI
Visiting Kenya &
Tanzania
Departs: 04 Sep 2010 -
Only 5 seats remaining
18 Sep 2010 - Sold Out.
Tour Price: from
C$5095
Our ever-popular
13-day/14-night Migration Safari has been especially designed to track the
progress of the annual wildebeest migration in Kenya and Tanzania.
Travelling by road, the tour is guided by Hanne Lindemann, a biologist, wildlife and
conservation specialist and 'migration expert' and allows visitors to experience both the thrill of a luxury tented
camp and the comfort of a traditional safari lodge.
In terms of scenery,
this exceptionally panoramic tour offers the Afro-Alpine splendour of Kenya's
Aberdare National Park, the forests and tropical ice of Mount Kenya, the
flamingo-fringed waters of lovely Lake Nakuru, the glory of the Great Rift
Valley and its string of glittering lakes, the rolling plains of both the Masai
Mara in Kenya and the Serengeti in Tanzania and, finally, the 'Eighth wonder of
the natural world', the magnificent Ngorongoro Crater World Heritage Site and
the Ol Duvai Palaeolithic site and world-renowned 'Cradle of Mankind'.
Wildlife highlights: lion, elephant, buffalo,
leopard, cheetah, hippos, crocodiles, wildebeest, zebra, antelope, gazelle,
impala, waterbuck, topi, eland, plains game, giraffe, black and white rhino,
black-and-white colobus monkey, baboon, vervet, blue and red-tailed monkey,
bush babies and hyrax.
Accommodation features: the stunning 'tree hotel'
on the slopes of Mount Kenya, Serena Mountain Lodge; the Lake Nakuru Lodge;
Mara Fig Tree Tented Camp; Kijereshi Tented Camp in the Serengeti; the stunning
Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge; and the relaxed and centrally placed Jacaranda
Hotel in Nairobi.
Contact us and don't miss this Spectacle!
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'SPREAD
THE SMILE' IN AFRICA
"The one thing that always makes African
children smile is a good game of what we call soccer and they call football"
says Stephen Allison, East African ex-pat and co-founder of the 'Spread the Smile' project.
Generally,
Africa is not in great shape these days. We hear all the time about floods,
droughts and disease up and down the continent. That being said, the children
of Africa always seem to have the capacity to smile - even in times of
adversity.
By
donating Fair Trade Soccer Balls directly to children in Africa, the 'Spread the Smile' project is designed
to offer a little more joy and happiness, and to give children in Africa
something to really smile about. With a £12.50
(approx. C$20) donation you can help deliver a soccer ball to children in
Africa, sustain more jobs in communities in Africa and increase health
awareness!
'Spread the Smile' works
with a small British charitable group called Alive & Kicking. A&K's mandate
is to supply Fair Trade Soccer Balls to children in Africa. Their 'stitching
centers' in Kenya and Zambia employ 50-100 local disabled men and women, who
stitch together balls made of local leather, produced by a local shoe
manufacturer. The balls are imprinted with health awareness messages, and are
often used in tournaments, combined with health screening.
How can you get involved? 'Spread the Smile' makes
it possible for anyone travelling to East & Central Africa to personally
give a couple of Fair Trade Soccer Balls to children in orphanages and schools
along the way. Our co-founder, Stephen has generously pledged to purchase a
ball for every donation made. That way you get to give away two Fair Trade
Soccer Balls for $20. Please ask Chris Boecker for details.
If
you're not planning a trip to Africa soon, you can simply click on www.aliveandkicking.org.uk to
make a donation online. Your ball will be distributed to a school, orphanage,
refugee camp or youth project and you'll be sent information on who receives
it.
The
'Spread the Smile' mission is to give
children in Africa a chance to play and smile, and at the same time create job
opportunities and help raise awareness of malaria, TB, HIV/AIDS and other
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