To cross or not to cross……Serengeti National Park, Tanzania and Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Excitement grows as we hear the mega-herd has gathered in the Mara Triangle, some 1.5 million wildebeest and 200,000 zebra; while some smaller, straggling herds remain in the northern Serengeti, waiting for the water levels of the Mara River to […]
We head out of Zhongdian at 8.30 am for Tiger Leaping Gorge, it was a pleasant drive from Zhongdian, through farming country and the occasional small village. We arrived around 10.30 am in the Gorge area, and we were not the first tourists there, and the area was in full swing when we arrived. As soon as you get […]
Leaving Zhongdian behind, we head out on an excursion up a mountain pass, and on reaching the top we find to our delight it’s snowing. Time to hop off the coach for a snowball fight and photos. Continuing over the Pass we reach the little village of Tianwei now bathed in sunlight. A very traditional, predominantly Tibetan farming village, with […]