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Spirit in the sky
FLYING IN THE SKY alongside raptors might sound like a fairy tale, or like some wild dream. But for Scott Mason it’s a typical day.
The British-born falconer lives in Pokhara, Nepal – a city loved by tourists for its proximity to the Himalayas and its rivers. His lakeside home is a round adobe hut topped by a thatched roof. Outside the front door are the aviaries he’s hammered together to house a growing cadre of birds.
Safari Salaam
Book a window seat for your flight out of Dar es Salaam: below is the chaotic, exotic sprawl of the port city, and beyond is sheer spectacle.
Tanzania is not a jewel in the safari crown, it’s the whole platinum-plated, gem-studded treasury. The dilemma we face is not where to go but what to bypass in a country which boasts 200,000 square kilometres of sublime wilderness and with it the greatest herbivore migration on earth – a vast inland lake, the largest intact caldera in the world, and the unrelenting beauty of the Zanzibar archipelago.
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While the Gulf may have forged its international reputation on oil, there are those who believe the region’s future lies in a different and rather unlikely resource beneath the seas.
