Albury Kent Travel

09/05/2023

Some of the wonderful staff on board Viking Gymir on route to Budapest. 👍🏻🍾👏

07/05/2023

Currently cruising from Amsterdam to Budapest with Viking on Viking Gymir.
The service on board is excellent as is the food.
The excursions are interesting and very well organised.
Thank you Viking for a wonderful experience.

13/03/2023

Anyone debating about flights to Europe Emirates and few others are upping fares from 21 March.
FYI

26/01/2023

Meanwhile in Afric…

29/12/2022

11/11/2022

Amazing

Mind-bending: This is how the Titanic would compare in size to a cruise ship of today. 😮

16/09/2022

If only this still happened 😀

Serving a snack on Scandinavian Airlines flight, 1969.

31/08/2022

07/07/2022

Dining in lavender fields. Italy 💜

03/07/2022

ETIAS Visa Waiver for Australian citizens. Australians travelling to Europe for business or leisure reasons will be obligated to apply for an ETIAS from 2022.

25/02/2022

Dereck and Beverly Joubert, National Geographic filmmakers, set out to do a film on leopards without knowing exactly to what degree the couple would be seduced by one small leopard they found when she was just eight days old cub emerging from a fallen down tree for the first time.

That first day Tortillis, her mother, walked to the filmmakers, growled and charged and from that day on, never bothered with them again, accepting them into her world. However, the cub grew up with the filming vehicle and immediately accepted that she could behave naturally with them there. This cub, Legadema, is the central character in this epic film, remastered here and covering the first four years of her life in detail from when she was eight days old until she herself was a fully grown adult staking out her territory, from her first attempt at ‘killing’ her mother’s tail to bringing down a large male impala. The film uses flashbacks to explain exactly what the learning curve is. For example, her early days were spent watching her mother (Tortillis) unlock the puzzle of Vervet Monkey hunting, which involves leaping from tree to tree, chasing them up and finally getting above them, and hunting down. It is exactly the same technique we see Legadema adopt as a young adult, also racing up a tree, fast, to get above them and to hunt down. Similarly, her epic impala hunting skills were learned early, at just four months, all caught on camera when her mother brings her a live impala foal to test her skills on.

The relationship with her mother provides the tension in the film as this bond strengthens and then breaks. The spark for this break comes one day when Legadema happens upon a troop of baboons and races in and catches a fully grown female baboon. But when she drags the kill up a tree and discovers a one-day-old baby baboon in the mother’s fur, the young leopard cub (at 13 months) is suddenly thrust into the conflict of her life. She has to balance being a playful cub and mature predator but, most of all, an emerging mother with maternal instincts. She spends the night cuddling and looking after the baboon, raising more questions about the inner personalities of these big cats.

Narrated by Jeremy Irons

Eye of the Leopard airs on the National Geographic Wild channel today.
Please check your local TV schedule for the confirmed transmission time.

Dereck and Beverly Joubert, National Geographic filmmakers set out to do a film on leopards without knowing exactly to what degree the couple would be seduce...

06/12/2021

Happy Christmas

01/12/2021

Can't wait to give this a try

Hobnobbing with giraffes isn't just for breakfast and afternoon tea these days! Kenya's legendary Giraffe Manor has enhanced their facilities with an impressive new infinity pool where their lucky guests can meet the leggy residents from the comfort of this 70 foot infinity pool. We can't think of a better finale to your dusty safari, can you?

We can take you there!

📸.siambi