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What can I Expect on a Safari Tour?







Old stories revolve around going out into remote areas in the African interior with huge guns, bringing back wild game and mounting the trophys on the parlor wall. In a modern safari tour, animals are shot only with with a zoom lens.
A safari is by definition a rugged type of expedition, but there are some trips that are more comfortable than others. If you like roughing it, you can still hire a crew of porters and hike out into the roughest area of the Congo where automobiles cannot go. However, many safari tours start out in rugged automobiles or jeeps, and include short, manageable hikes along the way.
Also, you need not sleep on the ground or in a tent; there are a great many wonderful things to see and wild animals to enjoy nearby many African cities. This makes it possible to enjoy evenings in a luxurious, comfortable hotel, while spending your days traversing the wild Savannah in the company of giraffes, tigers and elephants. Some wild game preserves also have lodges nearby, although these may be a bit more rustic.
By far, the most common safari tour is on the African, but safari tours also take place in other areas of the world, including South America, India, and Southeast Asia. Within Africa, the most common destinations are in the Eastern part of the continent, specifically Tanzania and Kenya.
Before booking a safari tour, make sure to have a look at the jeep in which you will be traveling, and ask how many people will be going. You don't want to get stuck in the middle of the back seat. Also, an open jeep, or enclosed vehicle with a large sunroof will offer the best viewing opportunities. English-speaking tour guides are usually available, but you may have to request it. Don't assume that all tours will be in English, and it's always good to try to learn at least a few words of the native language.
If you do choose to go the camping route, expect there to be mosquitoes and make sure to bring mosquito nets and mosquito coils. is a major concern in many jungle areas, and you don't want to take any chances.
Although you may wish to carry some local currency, most tour operators and hotels do accept American currency.
In addition to enjoying the sweeping, majestic natural views and getting a good look at wild animals in their natural habitat, a safari may give you an opportunity to visit remote tribes and ethnic groups, and get a rare glimpse of their unique way of life.

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What is the Winchester Mystery House?


The Winchester Mystery House is a labyrinthine historic house open to the public in San Jose, California. It was built by Sarah Winchester, widow of William Wirt Winchester, who was the second president of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. After the death of Sarah's child in 1866 and her husband in 1881, she fell into a deep depression. Sarah consulted a medium who told her that she was being haunted by the ghosts of people killed with Winchester rifles. The only solution, according to the medium, was to move and begin building a home, and to keep building it without stopping.
In 1884, Sarah relocated from the East to San Jose, then a rural town south of San Francisco. For the next 38 years, construction continued around the clock on the home which would come to be known as the Winchester Mystery House. Upon her death in 1922, the Winchester Mystery House has 160 rooms, 47 fireplaces, 361 staircase steps, and 10,000 windows. The house also has extensive grounds which feature a wide variety of plantings. Parts of the Winchester Mystery House were damaged in the 1906 earthquake and again in 1989 from the Loma Prieta earthquake, but the sturdy redwood construction has kept the mansion largely intact.
Visitors to the Winchester Mystery House take note of staircases which lead nowhere, doors which open into walls, tiny cupboards, twisting and turning hallways, and windows which look into nothing. 112 of the rooms are open to the public, and some are furnished with restored furniture, while others are left empty. Special tours are led on notable days, such as Halloween and . Sarah felt that the number 13 was lucky, as were spider webs, and the Winchester Mystery House is liberally adorned with both.
One of the more bizarre things about the Winchester Mystery House is the investment that it represents. Sarah Winchester inherited a great deal of money, and she spent it lavishly on building up the house. Windows and adorn rooms with exquisite inlaid floors and stunning wood carving. The home also had many conveniences which were not widespread while it was under construction, including working elevators, indoor flushing toilets, and steam heating.
Given its unique history and construction, the Winchester Mystery House was entered into the National Register of Historic Places and is also a California Registered Landmark. A large full-time staff keep the house and grounds in order as well as leading tours. Visitors can see the Winchester Mystery House for themselves on any day of the year.

In truth, lawyers earn much less on average than most people think they do. While it’s true that the top lawyers earn exorbitant salaries, and even fairly successful lawyers earn quite a bit, many lawyers earn relatively little when compared to other professional fields. In fact, a number of lawyers graduate from law school with no job in the field of law, and so are forced to either try to make their own way in private practice, or else to work another job while they struggle to find work at a firm.
Law school itself is incredibly competitive, and how students perform has a direct bearing on how much those future lawyers earn later in life. Because law schools track their students so closely, law firms looking to hire can hire directly based on what percentile the student ranked in their class. This means that the top firms in top cities tend to accept only those lawyers who did very well, while those who fell in the lower of their class may be lucky to find work at any firm, much less one that pays particularly well.
At the upper echelons, a law student who excelled in their class, and so was scooped up by a large law firm in a top market like New York City can expect to make more than $150,000 US Dollars (USD) in their first year as an associate. Second-tier students can still hope to make around $120,000 USD, and students in even smaller cities may make closer to $70,000 USD in their first year. At the even lower ends, with students in practices in small towns, or at lesser firms in slightly larger markets, lawyers earn sometimes as little as $35,000 USD in their first year as an associate, and for some of these lawyers advancement may never come.
As to why lawyers earn so much money, there are a number of reasons that support their salaries, although to many these reasons are not entirely satisfactory. The most commonly cited reason is simply the investment of money to become a lawyer. Unlike many graduate programs in the sciences or [ برای مشاهده لینک ، با نام کاربری خود وارد شوید یا ثبت نام کنید ] , there does not tend to be money available for those wanting to become lawyers, so that the cost must be paid for either out of pocket or through loans. Thus, many people come out of law school with around $150,000 USD in debt, and the risk that they may not be able to pay it off means that those who do get work make more money than those in a profession without such a financial investment.
Many people also suggest that lawyers earn as much as they do because of the lifestyle they have to lead as lawyers. Many lawyers work fourteen to sixteen hour days, and are constantly on call. During hard cases they may be expected to virtually live in an office, and this can drag on for weeks or months, or even years in some cases. This is thought to far exceed that of many other professions, helping to justify what lawyers earn each year.
Of course, there are those who would simply say that lawyers earn too much for what they do. Engineers also tend to have to outlay a great deal of money to attend a professional school, and yet their salaries are substantially less than those of a lawyer. Nurses may find themselves working nonstop, as may any number of other professions, but they earn nowhere near what lawyers earn. Ultimately, it would seem lawyers earn exactly as much as the market will bear, and when there is either less demand for their services, or more lawyers to compete for the work there is, their salaries will drop.