Our safari is centered in East Africa in the Maasai Mara and will take us to the vast grasslands of the East African savannah to observe elephant, lion, giraffe, cheetah and dozens of other amazing animals and birds. Unique biological adaptations abound. Elephants must eat several hundred pounds of leaves a day just to retain their ideal 7-ton weight. Zebras' stripes are as individual as a human fingerprint. The giraffe has exactly the same number of neck bones as humans, a total of seven.
Lions sleep as much as twenty hours a day.
Uniquely, within the two East African nations of Tanzania and Kenya, the Great Migration focuses of the 18,000 square mile Serengeti-Mara ecosystem. The lessons of the Serengeti are hard - ever present death fuels life. Our private sailing yacht Panorama will take us on a journey to explore 9 of the 115 or so islands in the Seychelles group. In the 1997 Islands of the Indian Ocean Expedition, many of the islands in the Seychelles were visited and an Internet field log posted. The unique History of the Seychelles adds an intriguing air of mystery to the surroundings.