Above and Beyond Africa / Your Safari Expert

07/05/2012

This presentation I'm doing in San Francisco about some pretty special adventures in Africa is not only for travel professionals. If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, come join us. Early postmark registration (save $5) ends this Saturday, July 7. - Anyone going from the South Bay, but needs a ride, I can provide a ride for up to 3.

Christine Eichin, owner and safari consultant at Above and Beyond Africa, www.YourSafariExpert.com, will share her enthusiasm about wildly unique African experiences that go beyond your average safari. Learn about gorilla and/or chimpanzee tracking, climbing Kilimanjaro, walking with lions (YES, and...

01/18/2012

Leopard baiting:
Anyone is welcome to comment, but I would really like to hear the views of those in travel, and/or working in conservation, wildlife management, etc.!

There is a private conservancy in Kenya that started baiting Leopard. I was outraged, and wrote the owner to please stop that practice, stating the conflcts between wildlife and the human population, and why I didn't think giving a wild cat the taste of livestock was a good idea. The owner replied, saying it gives them a chance to dispose of dead cattle, that they were a good distance from human population, and that most guests enjoy seeing the leopard take the bait.

Beyond my above stated reasons, I also think it is taking the wild out of Africa, and makes this experience something like a zoo. I hate it!

11/21/2011

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09/07/2011

08/23/2011

Proud to support this cause... trying to save the Serengeti!

Dave Blanton | Founding Member, International Members, Member News, Serengeti Highway, US Member

08/14/2011

One of the most exhilerating activities at Victoria Falls (either Zimbabwe or Zambia side)

08/14/2011

Walking with lions... one of the most exhilerating activities, possible on both sides of Victoria Falls. It is the first stage (providing funding) of 'The Lion Rehabilitation & Release into the Wild Program'

04/24/2011

Go see 'African Cats' at a theatre near you... It is amazing, entirely filmed in the Masai Mara (Kenya). I got a kick out of the credits... very cute!
Preview: http://disney.go.com/disneynature/africancats/

I'm so excited my group "Pot of Gold", where we spend 3 nights in the Masai Mara during the legendary wildebeest migration, is now sold out. Stay tuned for next year's departure; Oct. 8 - 21, 2012.

Happy Easter!

See the epic true-life adventure of the African lions and cheetahs in Disneynature's African Cats. Now Playing in Theaters everywhere.

03/22/2011

Hope (for now) for the highly endangeroud mountain gorillas... Meeting these gentle giants face to face is perhaps THE most profound animal encounter one can have.

12/05/2010

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Photography inspired by the enormous variety of wildlife and birds encountered while on safari in East-, South- and Southern Africa, the Indian Ocean Islands of Zanzibar, Madagascar and the Seychelles, as well as in the Arctic. I have no photography background whatsoever. You, too, can take such