Governors Camp

... were glad to see us safely back. When they found out where we had stayed the previous night, they said, "Welcome back to reality." Governors' Camp was definitely a luxury camp that we would never have decided to visit on our own; I guess the Lord just ...

... wildebeest and zebra running below as we reached the Masai Mara, in the western part of Kenya close to the Tanzanian border. Little Governors Camp was wonderful as well as our 17 yr veteran guide, Samuel. When we arrived we were greeted with a glass of ...

... ; They had great goat and gouda cheese.  A few of my favorite sights were: A baby lion Elephant roaming through our camp for an entire day The wildabeast lining up and crossing the river The leopard The sunset and sunrise So we WAY overpacked....as ...

... soon feed themselves into her jaws. Time was running out and our game drive was coming to an end. The 4WDs headed towards the camp. Over dinner table, wagers flew  wild over whether the lions would have had their supper by then or ...

... in Colombia, this is a large square that is mainly empty apart from a large abstract statue, it also houses the governors building which is quite a pretty building. From what I have seen Manizales does not hold to many things of interest ...

... .  We missed the British raising the Union Jack on the Capitol, but there was other interesting sites in the British camp including a demonstration of how the firing line was conducted.  I saw a cannoneer constructing his tent with a little ...

... we have driven after sunset. It was a very well equipped Big 4 in Goulburn and we met a chatty couple from Switzerland in the camp kitchen who were doing the opposite journey to us but for the same reason, they were driving to Adelaide to leave their van ...

For lunch we were relegated to a ger fitted out like a model-home because the "governors" were occupying the restaurant.  It was a far cozier arrangement being served lunch while setting amongst the stylized clothing and implements found in a normal ...

... I particularly enjoyed the large Christmas tree.     Next we went to the museum in the Palace of the Governors. There they displayed the Segesser Hide, the first known depiction of encounters between Native Americans and Europeans. One of ...

... I was expecting on the Inca Trail. We saw a few more ruins along the way that indicated little settlements where the local governors of the time would have lived. With those towns were storage facilities that the Incas built, on the sides of mountains or ...

... holding a 4 kg golden eagle.  It seems that a group of government bigwigs (Muujie kept referring to them as governors) were having lunch at our ger camp, and these guys had been invited over to show the eagle off.  It was a magnificent bird, and ...

... of the House of Senate in an 18th  Century building, the Congress Hall, a brand new building, the Palace of the Governors, another old building. That covered the political bits, but opposite were 8 old house that had been restored, one of which was ...

... gentile and half Jewish, often causing disputes among the people. In 6 CE, Caesarea became the home of the Roman governors (Procurators) of Judea. The city remained the capital of Roman and Byzantine Palestine. Caesarea was also the site where the ...

... for those that don't mind doing all-day game drives.  Otherwise, with only two game drives per day, you won't get very far into the park before you need to start to return to camp.  Otherwise, look for places like Governors or Mara ...

... frozen rivers in winter, living in tents, building cabins and eventually getting a road system built here after storming a state governors meeting armed with a shovel! We were all riveted. An incredible story. Could be a movie right? Well......Mary wrote ...

... and then it was onwards and literally upwards, through the city centre and past archetypally English architecture, resplendent houses of governors, the bobbing Bobby helmets of the plods walking by and, just to complete the picture of mundane British ...

... . It seemed that everything - apart from the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency - was up for grabs: State Governors, US Senators, US Congressmen, State Senators, State Congressmen, Sheriffs, Judges, Commissioners, Assessors, Treasurers, Secretaries and ...

... the  Maya museum, the many palaces specially near this Museum, cathedral(the oldest in Mexico, with roman arches), palace of governors with paintings of the history of Yucatan, explained in English too. Dinner in a bad expensive restaurant, then ...