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Our Wild Africa Trek at Disney’s Animal Kingdom continues… When we left you, nick had successfully crossed the bridges and all 12 trekkers had made it to our private savannah tour vehicle. (Crossing the bridges post is here) The tour vehicle is much smaller than the big trucks used on the Kilimanjaro Safari. Our truck continue reading Wild Africa Trek – Savannah Tour before Lunch … We noted in the first Wild Africa Trek post that nick was concerned about crossing the rope bridges. Nick has a fear of heights. Plus as he has gotten older he has had a couple of vertigo episodes. As we approached the first rope bridge, nick knew he would not be taking any photos WHILE continue reading Wild Africa Trek – Crossing the Bridges … The Wild Africa Trek at Disney’s Animal Kingdom is one of the newest tours at Walt Disney World. The first tours were offered on January 16, 2011. The Trek lasts 3 hours and is led by knowledgeable tour guides who also serve as your personal photographers. You get a backcountry view of the Harambe Wildlife continue reading Wild Africa Trek – Intro and Start of Trek … Today we have something special! A Guest Post! Kris & Kevin (K2) joined us on Thanksgiving Day for all of our Adventures. Kris has beat us to the punch by writing up her impressions and thoughts. Thank you so very much for contributing! Disney Does It Right! 🙂 I’ve been saying that for 25 years continue reading Thanksgiving Day – Guest Post from Kris … In addition to the Yuletide Fantasy Tour (backstage, review here), we went on the Holiday D-Lights Tour. This is a “new” tour, offered for the first time in 2009… as such, we weren’t at all sure of what would be happening or if we would enjoy it a little bit or a whole lot. We continue reading Disney’s Holiday D-Lights Tour Review – 2010 … Today we went on the Disney’s Yuletide Fantasy Tour (official description below), our overall experience closely matches what has been reported on allearsnet.com (here). Take a delightful journey behind the scenes to see how Walt Disney World Resort is transformed into an international holiday wonderland. Get an in-depth look into the diverse holiday traditions and continue reading 2010 Disney’s Yuletide Fantasy Tour – A Review … (originally posted on FrugalDinks May.19.2010) I was cleaning out my bag last night & ran across some notes (granted, they’re skimpy notes by my usual standards, but there wasn’t a lot of opportunity to take my usual voluminous tomes) Electrical Energy – WDW has three power plants & they must buy more power from continue reading Random Notes from Backstage Magic Tour … (originally posted on FrugalDinks May.14.2010) Now, back to the Backstage Magic Tour. Disney’s Hollywood Studios The first thing we noticed as we drove backstage on the big cruise bus – backstage is “finished” – it looks like a hollywood studio – with good reason, it used to be a working studio. Our first stop continue reading Our Backstage Magic Tour – Part 2 … (originally posted on FrugalDinks May.12.2010) Yesterday, we took the Backstage Magic Tour; this tour was focused on the four WDW theme parks and provided a glimpse of what goes on backstage to create the magic we all enjoy. Right up front, while we enjoyed the tour – we’re big readers, I’m a particularly avid continue reading Our Backstage Magic Tour – Part 1 … On May 8th 2010, we (Nick, Kate, Calvin & I) went on the Wilderness Back Trail Adventure (see allearsnet for the basic rundown) – and was it ever fun! So much so that Nick & I are ready and willing to do it again! We met our guides (Ron & Sean) at the bike continue reading Wilderness Back Trail Adventure – another Segway Tour … |
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