Bryan Cockel
Sold my tech company 5 years ago, and am realizing my dream of traveling "the road less travelled" in tropical countries around world. So far I have had the great pleasure of walking the tropical forests and savannahs of about 30 countries - from the Solomon Islands to Madagascar. From the Peruvian Amazon to the Seychelles Islands in the Indian ocean.travelintheworld
Travel Blog Posts
December 12th 2008
In recent years traveling in remote parts of Madagascar and Tanzania, I had, indepently and spontanaeously had the same conversation - once over a campfire in the Udzungwa Mountans (Tanzania), the other in a small village some 200 Km from the west coast town of Majunga in Madagascar. Some background, in Tanzania, I'd embarked in a multi-day walk through the upland rainforests of the Udzungwa mountans - a fantastic experience but tense. You come around sharp bend on the trail in the dense rainforest and come upon bowling ball sized dung, still steaming, from elephants. The Serengeti, not. You risk stumbling into the personal space of a jumbo, the penalty for which is unmentionable. Having said that, really not that much different than stumbling into the wrath of a cement truck driver on the local interstate. ... read more
December 11th 2008
In recent years traveling in remote parts of Madagascar and Tanzania, I had, indepently and spontanaeously had the same conversation - once over a campfire in the Udzungwa Mountans (Tanzania), the other in a small village some 200 Km from the west coast town of Majunga in Madagascar. Some background, in Tanzania, I'd embarked in a multi-day walk through the upland rainforests of the Udzungwa mountans - a fantastic experience but tense. You come around sharp bend on the trail in the dense rainforest and come upon bowling ball sized dung, still steaming, from elephants. The Serengeti, not. You risk stumbling into the personal space of a jumbo, the penalty for which is unmentionable. Having said that, really not that much different than stumbling into the wrath of a cement truck driver on the local interstate. ... read more
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