—Diane Powell Ferguson, Scottsdale, AZ

Inspired by a positive review in International Travel News by Charles R. Cusack (Nov. ’02, pg. 82), we chose Fish Eagle Safaris (phone 800/513-5222 or visit www.fisheagle safaris.com) for our ninth African safari — the second to Botswana.

Planning ahead

We contacted company owner Bert du Plessis to customize wildlife viewing in the Okavango Delta. In fact, we stayed at two camps the Cusacks had visited, although our final choices...

by Rob Sangster, Nova Scotia

“. . . For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-bells they say, ‘Come you back, you British Soldier, come you back to Mandalay!’. . . On the road to Mandalay, where the flyin’-fishes play. An’ the dawn comes up like thunder outer China ’crost the Bay. . .”

With these words, Rudyard Kipling immortalized the longings felt by British soldiers who’d returned to foggy England after having been garrisoned in exotic, sultry Burma. He also fired my...

The Kamchatka Peninsula, part of The Russian Federation, extends from the northeastern end of Siberia, thrusting down to divide the Sea of Okhotsk from the Bering Sea. It is one of the few truly unexplored wilderness areas left in the world. Sharing a latitude with Alaska, it is remote and difficult to get to. Conditions are so harsh there for most of the year that the human population is sparse and primarily concentrated in Petropavlovsk, its capital. A few small fishing villages exist on...