India opens safari lodges, ala Africa |
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Dec 9th, 2006, 22:15
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| Maha Guru Member  Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: you essay
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| India opens safari lodges, ala Africa India is to open many safari lodges, ala Africa. That have a low impact on the enviroment like the ones in Africa. Here's the story from the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/travel/10safaris.html Last edited by machadinha; Dec 9th, 2006 at 23:51.. Reason: moved to wildlife forum |
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Dec 9th, 2006, 22:18
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| brother my cup is empty member  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: yörp
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| The NY Times is a subscription paper. Can you give a short summary (or a password  )?And didn't India have wildparks accommodation for a long time now? 
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Dec 9th, 2006, 22:29
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| Maha Guru Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: you essay
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| Why can't you open the link? And yes, India has had lodges for years, but I guess their marketing these a little different. Maybe there trying to get that international traveler that usually goes to Africa for a safari. I think most people don't think of India that way.  |
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Dec 9th, 2006, 23:49
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| brother my cup is empty member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: yörp
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| I can open it but you need to subscribe with NYT for a lot of stuff, including this one. It's free I think but I generally click away thinking why bother. |
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Dec 10th, 2006, 00:16
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| brother my cup is empty member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: yörp
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| It turns out I was just blocking their cookies so you get redirected to a subscribe page. Sorry & thanks (never too sure about why would a newspaper require a cookie, but... actually I am pretty sure and think it's unnecessary, but let's leave it for another thread  ) |
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Dec 10th, 2006, 02:58
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| brother my cup is empty member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: yörp
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| ... So I've looked at the article and honestly don't see what's new about it, except for calling it "African-style safaris" perhaps. Not to put them down or anything. Just makes you wonder. Quote:
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Dec 10th, 2006, 07:28
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| Well for one thing the lodge seems to be IN the park which is new. Other than that it just seems to be a lot of fancy marketing. the choice of parks points to this, Panna and Pench aren't the best parks to see wildlife but are on the way to Kujaraho!! It's just me I suppose but I've never like internet sites that don't quote tariffs!! |
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Dec 10th, 2006, 08:38
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| Drunk Member  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Sydney, NSW
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| Just a quick off topic question, but do elephants get poached in India? |
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Dec 10th, 2006, 09:56
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| This is just a cameo appearance  Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Chennai, India
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| Everything gets poached in India. Elephants? Think illegal ivory  Even trees. A single sandalwood tree is worth a fortune. think how much they sell the small ornaments for. It is actually illegal to posses more than a kilo or so of un-carved sandalwood!. I think this was the famous (and now late) Veerapan made his money. |
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