Up close and personal with friendly animals
Please note: My page has moved to http://www.travelaroundwithkris.com - so follow me there as there will only be reposts on this site randomly throughout the month. New articles are being posted at the new site - with ino on Germany, Portugal and Spain added most recently. If you are in Morocco, one of the things …
Please note: My page has moved to http://www.travelaroundwithkris.com - so follow me there as there will only be reposts on this site randomly throughout the month. New articles are being posted at the new site - with ino on Germany, Portugal and Spain added most recently. In Australia, on the island of Tasmania, a fun …
Continue reading Making meerkat friends in Tasmania (Australia)
In the Bahamas, you can spend a little while with a sea lion. I went and met Murray at the sea lion encounter at Blue Lagoon. (They also have dolphin and stingray encounters available). You can get in the water (they provide wet suits) and interact with a sea lion who shows off his/her skills …
Continue reading Murray the sea lion – Bahamas excursion – great for kids and adults
Yesterday was my birthday and I thought what could be a better way of celebrating than spending the day with a bunch of elephants. So, I took a one hour ride out to Elephant Rescue Park which was an incredible experience. First you get to feed each elephant bunches of bananas, after hearing information about the …
If you are in Brisbane, I recommend a stop at the Lone Pine Koala sanctuary. There are over 100 koalas there, and you can see quite a few of them, generally sleeping in their trees or eating eucalyptus. The park also has areas where you can walk around with, and in some cases feed, …
Continue reading Animal interaction: Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary (Brisbane, Australia)
Aruba - Cruise port Once off the dock, we started looking for a likely taxi ride to take us to the things we planned to see. Our primary interests were the diorite boulders and the butterfly farm. We quickly found a driver who would take the three of us to those two attractions and a …
Continue reading Oranjestad, Aruba – Netherlands Antilles – sightseeing and the Butterfly Farm
Swimming with a stingray fever (Antigua) Yes, that's what a group of stingrays is called. A fever. One of the more unusual collection names I've seen. Although my favorite is probably "a murder of crows". In Antigua (Ann-tee-guh), one of the popular attractions is to swim with stingrays at Stingray City. This is quite fun …
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Panama - Leafcutter Ants It's always fun when you, as a tourist, find something so mundane to people from the country you are visiting utterly fascinating. I have wondered if there is anywhere in the world there aren't pigeons when I see people interacting with the giant flying poop creators in Trafalgar Square and such. …
When I was on a Caribbean cruise this past winter, one of the things I really wanted to do was have a dolphin encounter. After looking up reviews and locations, I decided my best bet was to do the Royal Dolphin Experience at the Dolphin Discovery center in St. Kitts. They have many sites around …
Continue reading What to know: Royal Dolphin experience with Dolphin Discovery
In NE Australia (a bit south of Cairns), there is a place called Tarzali Lakes that you can see platypus in the wild. This is a small lake that there are several platypi in. They are small and very fast so something like this may be the best picture you can get. You have to …
Tiger Kingdom, in the far reaches of Chiang Mai, is an excellent way to see tigers up close. The animals here are mostly rescues from zoos and circuses, and live out their lives here; the younger ones are more tourist friends, the older ones have areas that the tourists don't visit) I had …
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