Category: animal encounters


  • Videos of pelicans – hundreds

    Videos of pelicans, fishing, tending their young and flying-a sight to behold. Such close sightings of them were the highlight of my trip to Senegal. I saw them while participating in a tour in Djoudj National Bird Park, a UNESCO site where there are also millions of other migratory birds (including flamingos and herons). Plus…

  • Animal encounters on the road, podcast

    Encounters with animals have become the aspect that excites me most about traveling. Here is a verbatim account of some original incidents that happened to me in meeting animals. In particular, the trips where I saw the most animals were to Australia and Tanzania. I later discovered that they are actually among the countries where…

  • Video from the savannah (part 2)

    These videos from the savannah are the second part and I took them in 2023 in Tanzania. The quality is not exceptional, what my means allow me, but I think they deserve it. As always, I am looking for something special and perhaps entertaining. Of those visited, the park I liked best was Ngorongoro Park,…

  • Videos from Tanzania (part 1)

    These videos from Tanzania are dated 2023 and in this article is the first part of the selection. They are not from Focus documentary since my means are meager, but I think they are interesting and cute. In particular, I always look for something special and maybe funny. In the first two lionesses looking for…

  • Savannah life, sleeping in a pasture with zebras

    Our life on the savannah was immeasurably more comfortable as tourists, but still far removed from the everyday life of us Westerners. The comfort zone, the unknown one I personally experienced the discomfort of camping as a pleasure and one of the most beautiful aspects of this experience. Those who can afford it I assume…

  • Animals in Tanzania, until the millionth gazelle….

    Before you leave you think who knows if we will meet animals! well, yes! There are so many animals in Tanzania ! But you can also be more or less lucky. The ‘African speed camera Savannah travel also has a number of distinctive features, starting with the unexpected events taken for granted. But we were…

  • Group trip to Tanzania, mostly couples

    Not that I have done many, but as a group trip I think it turned out to be quite anomalous. I like to observe and understand the dynamics within groups, and in that sense a group trip is great. During college among the exams that interested me most were those in social psychology. I remember…

  • Photographic safari in Tanzania, that is, my first

    My photographic safari in Tanzania took place in August 2023. It lasted 15 days and I went with an ‘ agency and in a group. Actually the trip was composed of two very distinct parts, first the safari in Tanzania with these stops: To conclude, the island of Zanzibar . This was in our itinerary…

  • Driving on the Great Ocean road, the most beautiful road

    The drive on the Great Ocean road is considered one of the most spectacular in the world, but first there was to visit Melbourne and to finally spend some time with my brother. An update on my face book page: I am an eyewitness that they have seals, whales, crocodiles, sharks, wallabies and all kinds…

  • The penguin parade at Philip Island and the hitchhiker.

    I definitely wanted to see the Philip Island penguin parade. It is located in the southeastern part of Melbourne should have been the last little piece of Australia I would explore on my own. My brother had been living in Melbourne for a couple of years and I hadn’t seen him for 4. But he…