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It’s the latest attraction in the country: getting close to lion cubs!
Beb and I decided we would go and have a look [ and also a feel 
] and this morning… when we set off for Casela Park.. we managed to ‘attract’ a few others on board - mainly Priska (James’s buddy), James himself and Kyle.
We reached the park at around 11 o’clock.
We had made reservations to see the cubs at 12.30 but the guy at the reception told us we could go right away since there weren’t other people before us. We chose the second ‘package’ available for seeing the cubs, which involves going inside their enclosure and being able to feel them. That cost us each Rs 500 (Lions Interaction) + Rs 150 (Entrane To Casela) - quite expensive, but as I’ve been saying - I call this a once in a lifetime thing and spending the money felt justified to me.
We set off to take the ’safari bus’ - which would take us to where the lions were kept.
..and there they were! The cubs! Within our reach - personally for me, it was a G.R.E.A.T feeling! [ I’ve always admired lions since my childhood - this has to do with the fact that I have the Leo Zodiac sign ]
The next shots are us having a go at touching those ‘big cats’ - the feeling wasn’t what I expected though, their hair is much rougher than I thought, it’s like going through a door mat!
There’s a short clip I made while being with the cubs.
A beautiful view of the landscape from the park…
Next is a shot of a flower I took - I know it doesn’t look that good - nor is it anywhere near the marvels that Kyle does with his camera! But I still like it :D.
We spent some time looking at the birds next, I think it’s the birds’ mating season at the moment! We saw at least 3 different species… euh… being very busy
I liked the ‘Love Birds’ most among those at the park, they look so cute and their lively colours are very attractive.
A clip I made of a Love Bird that got quite interested at being filmed! I wonder if it was liking it or sort of ‘protesting’ at me!
We headed to the Children’s Corner afterwards, where we got silly. Ok.. I meant.. where I got silly mainly! But hey! It was great fun! I won’t post any of these here, may be you’ll find that on the other blogs :P.
Thanks to Kyle for the following shot, that’s Beb and myself in our ‘tractor’ (l) :P.
A group pic, or should I say, a Squad pic - courtesy of Kyle.
We didn’t forget to leave a few words in the GuestBook before leaving the park!
Did they ever receive such addresses before?
Cheers to every one today for making this a great day :).
Related Posts at Angele’s and
James’s.
“zardin zenfan ti nissa”
hahahhaha
Kyle’s shot of you and angele lor tractor la nice. (y)
jeff : b vrai
(A)
James : yup!
the other shots he made of us are great too! [ didn’t post em 
]
The day at Casela was great
*still hoping u might change yr mind abt the place though(a)*
Hey we finally got our tractor.Now we can definitely go and start our farm u know where
And yeh the pics Kyle did were fab
Angele : yea.. it’s a good start for our farm
- and thx again to Kyle :D.
EV: it was great fun touching the lions!
you should take the chance if you ever get it! it’s a nice experience
haha! kuzin to la roue deriere coT gauche ine lisse net!! fer tention to pa gagne 1 ti contravention :p
thx to u guys!
ELoooo!
Nice pics… nice video… and nice comments!! U guys look great together.. and the photograph did a great job!!
Beh… mo croire bizin profiter ale trapp bann lionceaux la avant zott vinn trop grand! Then mo croire bizin roule dan tracteur pou visit zott
Aller, take care les zamoureux!
Phils (le cupidon) *wink
Kyle : toi la kuzin!! pa pou dir nanier moi!
wei, si to kav aller, pa rate lokazion la! tantion zot decide morder ziss zour to aler selman 
Phils : thx
haha! eh for those who may want to look at my casela pics :
http://pages.intnet.mu/lclisa/casela
(y)as i said in james blog, lol, no fine to pay this time on the road!
n if u drive that tractor, no fine for ever n ever! :p
nice pic n trip seems cool too
yashvin : mo nek manke 1-2 ‘TI’ zafer pou mo roule mo tracter la
ey o fai.. mone pass dan to lendroit taler la.. mone fer 1 remark… sak 100m… ena 1 marsand grillade.. koumsa zot content manze grillade?? o.O
to trappe lion? to moV pd
remarker to kuzin r Yama toi >..>
dan disan sa fils.
happy easter lashoupedepette.
think i might consider mauritius as my honeymoon destination… :p
zewt: not to consider, but to grab a red marker and to draw a big red fat circle around it on your world map, to remind you where you should be going next!
Hey those cubs look so great! For how long has Casela had them? Didn’t know about that!
They seem to be really playful! Are they not hostile at all?
lol. The Casela people will be sure to visit your websites. Free promo for them.
jeff : uhuh
zewt : when are you getting married? :O btw, dunt heed to what jeff is saying
fadil : it just started last Thursday, u need to read the papers! well, we’re all still alive, so i guess it’s safe to say they’re not hostile.. for the time being!
aline : i wouldn’t mind going there for free again if they do let us!
jeff is always right ^_o
sorry lash for late reply :p
wawa grand manzeur grillade ici…
mo sire tone bisin check sa post kot mo faire grillade la momeme, enfin li briller imper mais “SA KI BON SA!” (y)
I gota say those cubs don’t looked like.. well, cubs! haha.. nice trip there though
oh ya, from where I came from, the beautiful flower you took, hibiscus, is our national flower
Jeff : hahah
you WISH! 
Yashvin : wei, mo ti check post la, kan to ouvert 1 ti baz grillade tossi la??
_butt : you come from Malaysia right butt? so… hibiscus is MY’s national flower?
Hi.I didn’t know you were a lion tamer.Cheers.:^);)
lol, pu a faire faillite, trop boukoup competition feroce parla :^)
Carlos : I was one for a matter of minutes only!
Yashvin : b to bizin fr 1 SPECIAL grillade toi
Hi LaSh.My camera is a Minolta SRT303b with a f50 mm 1:1.7,f28 mm 1:2.8 and a f135 mm 1:2.8.The extras are a Tele Coverter 2x and filters from Hoya.Now that spring is coming I’m planning to take some pictures here in Lisbon and I’ll probably publish them next month.Once many of the pictures that I have on the blog were not taken by me,that will balance.If I’m not mistaken,Maurittius were discovered by Portuguese in the year 1505.Pity they didn’t have Internet then.;)
Have a nice week.Cheers.:)
Portuguese? 1505? Never heard of that one lol. all i remember from evs is Maurice van nassau and england vs france beating each others with sugarcane.
and the netherlands beating the crap out of our xtinc’d (lolol) giant kentucky fried chicken or also known as dodo…
Carlos: im so jealous of you! i wish i had a macro lens. all i have is the shitty sigma 18-200 and a-not-too-bad sigma 10-20mm
Hi Lash,have a nice weekend.Cheers.;)
Jeff,1505 was not a tale from the unexpected,it’s a fact.The French and the Dutch were beating the shit out of each other with plastic bags and imported coconuts in the early 1700.That was more or less two weeks before the first chicken accepted Coronel Sanders invitation for a romantic dinner.;)
Make your own macro with a +3 filter from Hoya.It’s a little magnifying glass that makes a lady bug look the size of Arnold Scharzenegger.
Wishes of a cool wwekend to you all.:)
me never said it was a tale haha! i just said that i never heard of it!
i probably was sleeping in class as usual i guess
update sa blog la do bakaa
Jeff : quite surprisingly, I DO have a REAL life besides blogging
anyway, I’ll be really busy from now on for the coming month - I don’t expect to update much, or even at all!
Carlos : Hope you had a nice weekend dude
Carlos & Jeff : I’ll leave you two Photo geeks to your cam talk and Mauritius discovery debate
Have fun people.
Woooow. Nice stuff. I love lions. Enfin cubs. LOL They are too cute. :p
LOL !!!!!!!!
tansion mama lion la vine manz toi la !!!
Hi Lash.8-)
lol i havent been on here in a while >.
casela parret super jai 10 est je vai bientot venir pour le safari on a le venir aujourd’hui mais il ne se son pa bien renseinier. Et c dommage