My Wild Dreams
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| Serengeti in Africa presents amazing opportunities for great adventure. The Serengeti ecosystem covers 12,000 square miles and spans two countries. The Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, which is contiguous with the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya protect the most varied collection of terrestrial wildlife on earth. Aside from the vast natural ecosystem, the migration process in Serengeti is awe-inspiring. Over a million wildebeest and about 200,000 zebras flow south from the northern hills to the southern plains for the short rains every October and November, and then swirl west and north after the long rains in April, May and June. |
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Canadian Rockies – Moraine Lake in Alberta is among Banff National Park’s most scenic spots. Banff is Canada’s first national park and the world’s third. The Canadian Rockies are known for a distinctive warm wind called the Chinook, starting as gusts from over the Pacific. The Chinook can raise temperatures by up to 104 Degrees Fahrenheit in 24 hours.
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| The Grand Canyon located in Arizona, USA is a work of art through time… wonderfully crafted beyond human’s imagination for more than 2 billion years ago. Mother Nature is at its best when you see Grand Canyon. It is the world’s largest canyon and home to 5 Native American tribes: the Hopi, Navajo, Havasupai, Paiute, and Hualapai. |
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| The Galapagos Islands are among the world’s most active volcanic areas. It is home to unique and fragile species that evolved in splendid isolation. Most of the species that can be found in Galapagos are endemic to the area. The Galapagos penguins known as the only living tropical penguins and the Galapagos giant tortoises are just few examples of species that can only be found in Galapagos. Most of the flora and fauna in the islands are considered extinct species. Its most popular inhabitant is ‘Lonesome George’. |
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| The Australian Outback is so vast that much of it has yet to be fully charted on the ground. It has various wonderful attractions to see. One of these is Uluru in Central Australia that changes colors as the angle of sunlight shifts throughout the day. The world’s longest fence is the 3,437-mile Dingo Fence across the outback. The wire fence, completed in 1885, was designed to keep Australia’s native dogs, the dingoes, from killing sheep. Some 40 million kangaroos bound across the outback. |
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Tepuis, Venezuela. The Canaima National Park in Venezuela, considered as ‘The Lost World” contains most of the tepuis and covers 11,580 square miles. The tepuis can be compared to “islands in the sky” and are better known as the "house of the gods" by the natives.
Tepuis are table-top mountains that tend to be found as isolated entities and hosts to unique array of endemic plant and animal species. They are typically composed of steep blocks of sandstones that rise abruptly from the jungle, resulting in stunning natural scenery. The “Angel Falls”, the world’s tallest waterfall at 3,212 feet comes from the largest roaring mountain, Auyan Tepui.
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| Sahara is one of the wildest places on Earth and considered as a “Tropical Paradise”. At roughly 3.5 million square miles, the Sahara occupies almost a third of Africa and is about as large as the United States. It receives less than three inches of rain per year and is the largest hot desert in the world. |
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The Antarctica has 70 percent of the world’s freshwater and its frozen, and 90% of the world’s ice. It had the lowest recorded temperature in Earth -128.6 Degrees Fahrenheit, windiest place with gust of 130 miles an hour. And with less than two inches of rain per year, it is the driest of Earth’s seven continents.
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The Amazon Rain Forest supplies 15 to 20 percent of the Earth’s oxygen through photosynthesis, thus considered as “lungs of the planet”. At more than a billion acres, the Amazon is the biggest rain forest – more than half the size of the continental United States. It is a host of a very diverse biodiversity.
(Note: Some of the pictures are not mine.) |
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