Safari Notes

Anonymous said... Slum Tours :Go to cape town, Shanty town tours is the in thing,Go to joburg, Soweto slum tours is the order of the day.Go to brazil, slum tours is scheduled daily. In pro poor tourism, the net benefit goes to the poverty alleviation of the Poor in the area visited. What is this husle with James Asudi of victoria safaris introducing a new thing in Kenya. Bravo Asudi, You need a Reward for this effort.In 2006, 56 billion K.shs. came in through Tourism , How much went to alleviating poverty in kibera and other slums in kenya. Critics who have no knowlege of Pro poor tourism should shut up and go for a tour with the only Tour Operator in kenya - Victoria safaris, who considers the plight of the poor in the slums. I received this, above anonymous comment as a response to a comment I made at being sad and considering it cruel, of tourists visiting slums. I am not a critic nor a critique of tourists visiting slums; I do believe that - whatever is done by any one or organisat...

"Papua New Guinea we can beat in a week. Australia, Rio Tinto that will take a little longer" "This war is to protect the land environment and social system on Bougainville.I feel the Papua New Guinea government will continue to prepare to open Panguna mine and the rest of the other mines." "A leader who is not willing to clean the boots of his people is not a leader" Read More : Wikipedia , Counter Punch , Answers Photo : theage

Japan considers Greenpeace 'terrorists' and 'pirates'; Japan has gone as far as to refuse assistance from a Greenpeace vessel to tow its stricken whaling ship out of Antarctic waters . In actual fact - who is the terrorist? Under the pretext and guise of 'scientific research', Japan continues its indiscriminate slaughter of hundreds of whales every year; Why? The bottom line is that: Japan hunts whales mainly for commercial reasons and not 'scientific research' as they would like us all to believe. And many Japanese simply have a taste for whale meat. And what a cruel way to fulfill one's culinary taste! "The fate of the world's whales hangs in jeopardy. By way of its vote buying campaign, Japan could very well control the simple-majority vote of this year's International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting, targeting small island nations in the Pacific and Caribbean with foreign aid for pro-whaling votes. If these countries vote with Jap...

Last night I was reading Dennis's interesting last post: Blogging a Blogger III in which he mentions today's youngsters; this got me into thinking and pondering about the young of today. Be it here in Yemen, or back in East Africa - present day youngsters seem very confused and at odds with their surroundings. Boys, more so. What with several TV channels being aired each moment; the kind of violent, noisy music that's popular with the young; life being as hard as it is in most of the developing world; and above all, the lack of real, inspiring events and role models - the young of today will continue being overwhelmed and confused. Sure, during my time - we too were confused in some ways; and at times directionless. But we didn't live the kind of mechanical life that today's youngsters find themselves in; and at the break neck speed which their lives have to endure. What an astonishing speed? All I had to think about during my youth, was - school, play, eat and sl...