It is a show. A spectacle. Something Andrew Lloyd Webber couldn't have mastered better. A primal theater in Africa's Serengeti where the curtain never comes down and lone acacia trees and stately giraffes are the only props. An interactive show where yes, you are a humbled voyeur to the sex, violence, and politics of the plains - where you see first hand, survival of the fittest as the weak find their last moments of life paralyzed in the grip of a lion's jaw.

Where the sick get left behind, or the slow and stupid get thrashed by a preying crocodile. Where instinct is alive in the wildebeest who buck, leap and forage through their annual migration. Where mothers protect their young, and loyalty of the pride rules the land. And the orchestra never stops playing. From the grunts of the warthogs, clogging of the undulates as they move like a tidal wave across the plains, roars of the lions, high-pitched bark of the zebras, the hysterics of the hyena and the foraging of the giant elephants - this first hand experience will redefine your understanding of the word"wilderness."

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Or take the Amazon rainforest. A natural Jekyl and Hyde. By day the fluid heaviness of the air and the blazing sun brings silence to the shades of green and all those who inhabit it. There are no herds of ungulates as on the Serengeti Plain, just a kaleidoscope of shapes, forms and textures. By night, the air is cooler, light more soothing and the jungle busy with activity. Darting swallows and swifts create flight patterns above the tributaries, and toucans and scarlet macaws splash color to the land of plants and water. Monkeys swing from the vines that bind the canopy of the forest and caimans peer from their wet shallow perch.

Now take the Galapagos Islands - revealing nature in her pristine propriety. The essence of the islands is primal, innocent, varied - untouched by the tick of modern evolution. Because no large predators reached the Galapagos, the native fauna evolved no fear of larger creatures, including humans. You can observe eye-to-eye the large concentrations of animals. Or experience the underwater zoo. Watch big schools of parrot fish, float amongst a fleet of penguins or see sea lions shoot by.

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