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What’s new in Lions Park In Johannesburg? We went to Lions Park on Sunday. We live nearby, and we couldn’t help noticing some changes happened after unfortunate accident with American tourist. First-people are more careful; more people prefer going with a tour guide in a special vehicle. And really this is more fun. Your have a tour guide, he gives you interesting information, meet people, socialize. Second-I don’t know if it is a time of the year or just a coincidence, we saw less people than usually in Lions Park. Our tour guide showed us the lioness, responsible for attack on a tourist.On the first picture on the left she is looking at you. It is difficult to figure out what triggered lionesses’s behavior. As far as I was able to see, quite few people in the past open windows to make a better shot. May be just wrong place, wrong time. May be the American tourist used a flash and lioness thought it was a weapon. But it is good that people are more careful now. Our tou...

Bond, James Bond, new movie “Spectre”, Guinness records and much more. “Casino Royale” “Spectre” is the name of new movie in "Bondiana" franchise. The premiere in London was a total success with 3 royals attending and attracted a lot of media attention. Daniel Craig was magnificent together with his co-stars Monica Bellucci and Lea Seydoux. Now "Bondiana" spreads across 53 years with 24 movies and 6 actors playing Bond. Bond became older, even Bond girls became older too. The franchise is known to achieve 50 world’s Guinness records in stunts department, music , and popularity. Past Bondiana movies were remarkable for the longest speedboat jump in the film (Live and Let Die), the highest bungee jump from the structure (Golden Eye), the most cannon rolls in a car (Casino Royale) and much more. Bond theme song from “Live and Let Die” by Sir Paul McCartney and Wings received Oscar nomination for the best original song in a movie. It was the only one, so ...

Canopy Tour in Magaliesburg Gauteng. Have you ever tried Canopy Tour? Never heard of? Me too. Recently I went to the Travel Fair in North Gate and received a booklet with information. There are 6 Canopy Tours in South Africa; the biggest is Tsitsikamma near Knysna in Cape area. In Gauteng you can go to the real Canopy Tour near Magaliesburg or Ama Zwing Zwing Tour, which is the same type of adventure. I wanted to try something new and not hiking, although it was a lot of hiking as well. Basically, Canopy Tour is when you slide on a line over Ysterhoot Cloof to the different side of ravine and you do it 10 times, because there are 11 decks. To go there you can start from William Nicol Drive (R511) and stay on it until you cross N4 and reach R104/R27, then turn left, go to Sparkling Waters Hotel and Spa. The office for Canopy Tours situated in the Hotel. I booked my place in a group for a specific time and (or, Gosh!) I was late. My group left without me and I went with ...

My trip to Nairobi, part II Nairobi’s National Park is a big tourist attraction and it is situated not far from the city. From the park you can see buildings and International airport. The price to enter into the national Park in October for international visitors was $50 per person, (compare this to the price for Kenyan citizen- 500 Ksh). You can go in a hired car (for 4000 Ksh per day approximately) or you can hire a car with the driver in a park (the later can cost you +- $70 ). Park rules prohibit to go out of the car in the park.We all remember how an american tourist was mouled by a lioness. The best time to come to Nairobi National Park is in the early morning; then according to our driver you can see lion and leopard, may be a rhino. Rhinos are sitting in the water the whole day, because their skin is very sensitive to the sun. Usually, you will be able to see only small part of their horn, which looks like a stick or a brunch of a tree. Our driver (his name is Dan)tol...