December 20, 2024 On our last day at Kaziranga National Park, Chris, Stan, and I needed a break from driving around in the Jeep and electe...

  December 18, 2024 We got off early in the morning and were welcomed to the Jeep by hot water bottles for our laps/feet and a nice warm bla...

  December 17, 2024 As I see it, there are five reasons to visit Kaziranga National Park: 1) It has two-thirds of the WORLD'S POPULATION...

December 14-16, 2024      We've been wanting to go to India for a while, but the timing never worked out. A few years ago it was not our...

  July 1, 2023 What Sumatra lacks in highways it more than makes up for in unusual sites alongside the road. There is a never-ending stream ...

  June 24, 2022 After our morning at the Belém Tower and Jerónimos Monastery, we got an Uber to take us to the Gulbenkian Art Museum.  A wor...

After multiple trips into Yala National Park (three for Bob, two for me), it was time to move on. We returned to the hotel and had lunch, t...

The third national park we visited in Sri Lanka was Yala National Park, the most visited national park in the country. Covering 378 square...

There are 26 national parks in Sri Lanka, a country the size of Virginia. During our 8 days in the country, we visited 4 of the parks. We ...

RAVANA FALLS: After leaving our hilltop hotel in Ella, we headed down to lower (and hotter) elevations. Our first stop was at 85-foot...

All of the hotels we stayed in were Sri Lankan hotels--not American chains. Lanka Trackers (our guide Sanjay's company) selected them ...

Our perceptive guide Sanjay picked up on the fact that I have a thing for elephants and quickly arranged an extemporaneous trip to Minn...