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Cheetah on the hunt

Twenty years from now, will you look back and regret you didn’t get to visit the places you’d always wanted to see? Serengeti cheetahs streaking after their prey? A rare Black Rhino mom and baby grazing so close you could almost touch them? Myanmar’s ancient pagodas glistening with 24 carat gold and tended by monks in blood red robes? Burmese fishermen rowing with one leg while working their nets with their hands?

Black rhino mom and baby

Bagan's magnificent temples

 

                                               

Well, these are two of the trips we’re offering this year (Lush and lovely Panama, our January trip, is closed.) and we hope you’ll join us.

 

But, you’ll need to move quickly. Our trip to Africa from September 22 to October 6, 2013 (https://www.eglobaleducation.com/east_africa_13/east_africa_13.html) is nearly sold out. 

Besides that, Africa’s splendid national parks and gorgeous wildlife are under constant threat from poaching, highway development, and invasion by landless farmers. Who knows how long the vast savannah of the Serengeti and Masai Mara will teem with big cats, elephant herds running with surprising grace, hippos half submerged in the river pools, elegant giraffes loping smoothly across the savannah and millions of antelope grazing watchfully? This is the time to see them all, based at relaxing and luxurious game camps, enjoying excellent food and wine after an exciting day.

Bagan temple painting

 Meanwhile, Myanmar https://www.eglobaleducation.com/myanmar_13/myanmar_13.html), still a blend of the old colonial British Empire and the ancient Buddhist culture, has become an overnight tourist sensation and is changing fast, so now is the time to enjoy this beautiful country before tourism takes over its traditional culture. We’ll see Bagan, on the banks of the Irrawaddy River (one of the longest in the world), which seems to have put most of the gold on the planet atop its thousands of temples. And Inle Lake is the “center of the earth” to thousands of villagers who live and farm right on its waters. 

Sunset over the Irrawaddy River

Please take a look at the itineraries on the webpages linked above and get back to us right away.

Serengeti giraffes

 

Masai zebra baby and mom

East Africa Safari

Our East Africa trip (https://www.eglobaleducation.com/east_africa_13/east_africa_13.html) takes us to the lesser-visited and unique Samburu National Park in northwestern Kenya, where some of the giraffes, zebra and antelopes are distinct from their cousins in other parts of East Africa. In the magnificent Masai Mara, where the great migrations of wildebeest and zebra take place, we’ll see thousands of antelope and zebra, hundreds of giraffes and elephants, all mingled in warily with the big cats. We’ll spend 5 days in Tanzania’s unmatched Serengeti watching the migration of tens of thousands of animals, while our 2 days at the Ngorongoro Crater will immerse us in the largest concentration of big mammals on the planet.

Boy monks in lunch line

Burmese lady selling peanuts

Myanmar (Burma) Adventure

In Myanmar, we’ll visit the most beautiful and important pagodas (but definitely not so many that you’ll never want to see one again!), wander through traditional local markets, glide around Lake Inle’s watery villages in our long-tail boats, and offer a beautiful hike through mountain villages above Lake Inle, before heading to lovely Ngpali Beach to relax beside the sparkling Bay of Bengal. We will also enjoy a day of meetings with business and political leaders to gain special insights into the economy, politics and culture of the country. 

Villa Inle Resort's lake view room

Pa'O mom and baby

   

Why travel with us?

Our trips are small, usually no more than 8 to 10 people, and are led by us personally, so that you know we will take care of every detail and any problem that might arise. We choose smaller, exclusive game camps, lodges, and hotels, all five star or the best available, provide comfortable and oversized vans, buses, or Land Cruisers for overland travel, and use the most knowledgeable and congenial guides, whom we’ve checked out in advance.

We always visit countries before we take a group so that we can select the very best and most unique accommodations, the most interesting places to visit, and the top restaurants—not where you’ll see dozens of tourist busses—for our meals. We meet our guides and the local travel companies that handle our logistics so that we know you will be getting the trip of a lifetime. And we look for unusual travel experiences that are off the well-trod tourist tracks to enhance your experience.

We use our business and political contacts to set up exclusive meetings just for our groups with local and international business and political leaders and visit small local businesses when available. We select our guides carefully and do not let them take us to the teeming tourist shops where they get big commissions and we pay too much (unless you really want to go there).

Our goal is to assure you an exciting, memorable trip with superb personal service. We want you to enjoy these trips as much as we do. 

Elephant family

A note about costs

Other travel companies, even top line companies, have groups of 14-26 or more people. Group size has the largest impact on trip cost, so we offer several price points depending on group size, as you’ll see on the itineraries. As noted above, we include most meals (on safari, all meals), oversized vehicles so you can travel in comfort, all internal flights, and all tips (so you don’t have to worry about when, whom, and how much to tip).

Please contact us if you are interested in learning more:

gailschoettler@msn.com

donaldstevens@mac.com

We wish you an exciting and adventurous 2013.

Lioness at your fingertips

Inle Lake fishermen