Title – Kylie
Date – August 1996
Location - Oudtshoorn – South Africa
Take advice but don’t copy others. Cheetahs are dangerous animals and normally if you get this close you are in all sorts of trouble. This big cat was part of rehabilitation centre in South Africa and as part of the breeding programme since a cub she is well used to interacting with people. That itself doesn’t make stroking them safe, but the risks are reduced by the handlers being there, just out of camera shot.
This sounds like common sense advice, but just a few weeks before we arrived in South Africa three tourists were killed when they got out of their car in Kruger National Park, so they could have their picture taken in front of a pride of lions that were lying in the shade of a tree near the road…
Beyond The Blue run Gap Year and Independent Travel Safety & Awareness workshop to help individuals travel the world safely and avoid some of the obvious and not so obvious dangers.
Please visit our website at www.safegapyear.com
Image – ©Peter Mayhew
Date – August 1996
Location - Oudtshoorn – South Africa
Take advice but don’t copy others. Cheetahs are dangerous animals and normally if you get this close you are in all sorts of trouble. This big cat was part of rehabilitation centre in South Africa and as part of the breeding programme since a cub she is well used to interacting with people. That itself doesn’t make stroking them safe, but the risks are reduced by the handlers being there, just out of camera shot.
This sounds like common sense advice, but just a few weeks before we arrived in South Africa three tourists were killed when they got out of their car in Kruger National Park, so they could have their picture taken in front of a pride of lions that were lying in the shade of a tree near the road…
Beyond The Blue run Gap Year and Independent Travel Safety & Awareness workshop to help individuals travel the world safely and avoid some of the obvious and not so obvious dangers.
Please visit our website at www.safegapyear.com
Image – ©Peter Mayhew
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