Elite Plus Magazine : Elite Adventure

SEARCHING FOR KAMCHATKA BROWN BEARS

My latest adventure took me into the wilderness of Siberia in Russia Far East for the first time cruising on an explorer ship along the coastline of Bering Sea. It was another far away trip that brought back exciting memories and many stories to tell.

Little Rann of Kutch

After the visits to Gir Forest National Park and Velavadar National Park, my last destination in Gujarat, India, was Little Rann of Kutch where the Wild Ass Wildlife Sanctuary, the last refuge of the endangered Indian wild ass, is located.

Velavadar National Park

My adventure in the Gujarat State of India continued as I embarked northward on a four-hour drive to Velavadar National Park, the largest home of blackbuck, also known as the Indian antelope.

LEMURS OF MADAGASCAR

Madagascar was once a part of the enormous super-continent called Gond wanaland which about 180 million years ago had broken up into continents and countries we know today as Africa, South America, Antarctica, Australia, and India.

FRASER ISLAND

In May 2015, my television filming team and I flew to Brisbane, Australia, to film a documentary on four World Heritage Sites (WHS) of the State of Queensland including Fraser Island which was declared a WHS by UNESCO in 1992. From Brisbane we flew 50 min

CRUISING SVALBARD ARCHIPELAGO

Svalbard Archipelago, a Norwegian territory, is the world's most northern group of islands in the Arctic Ocean occupying the total area of 61,022 square km.

Elite Adventure

December / January 2020

A World Apart

Until recently, remote Qiandongnan in China’s Guizhou Province was almost a blank space on the map – today, tourism is coming to misty mountains and valleys that are home to countless minority villages.