travel and nature quotes Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/travel-and-nature-quotes Mon, 22 May 2017 19:09:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Wildlife Travel Guide http://toursmaps.com/wildlife-travel-guide.html http://toursmaps.com/wildlife-travel-guide.html#respond Mon, 22 May 2017 19:09:35 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=240645 I was with Wayne Hartley – a Florida Manatee expert with the NGO, Save the Manatee Club – canoeing the 600 m of the Blue Spring stream in Florida. I had arranged the day with the club to get first-hand experience of these endearing creatures for my blog, Back from the Brink (Whittles, 2015). It was the sound of frequent nose blowing on the water’s surface that made the experience particularly surreal. It wasn’t a sound that I had expected to hear. But these loud exhalations and intakes of air were a reminder that the aquatic creatures lying on the

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/wildlife-travel-guide.html/feed 0 Mumbai Wildlife Foundation Travel http://toursmaps.com/mumbai-wildlife-foundation-travel.html http://toursmaps.com/mumbai-wildlife-foundation-travel.html#respond Wed, 17 May 2017 16:33:50 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=240288 In ancient Persia where the religion was founded, pre-Islam, it was almost certainly the custom to leave dead bodies untended on some open ground where they would be eaten rapidly by wolves, jackals and vultures. The alternatives were impractical anyway. Presumably, wood for funeral pyres would have been scarce. Rivers would have been seasonal. And the often arid, rocky ground would not have lent itself to easy burial. In India, where most Parsis settled in the 8th century having been ousted from Persia, the process became ritualised at stone towers built specially for the purpose of encouraging vultures to consume

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/mumbai-wildlife-foundation-travel.html/feed 0 Wildlife World Travel http://toursmaps.com/wildlife-world-travel.html http://toursmaps.com/wildlife-world-travel.html#respond Sun, 14 May 2017 15:44:49 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=240082 Undeterred and ignoring the ‘no entry’ signs (I think they were only in Greek) and the helicopter landing pad we passed, I drove along a military road until stopped by a soldier with something like an AK47. He was coming towards our hire car. And the AK47 was aimed our way. Having spotted my binoculars – a dubious piece of equipment to hold at a military base in times of tension – as I scanned through the open car window for birds, the gun barrel was getting closer by the second and the soldier was now shouting, really quite loudly.

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