Travel to South Africa - Visit the De Wildt Cheetah Center

Most people travel to Africa to catch a glimpse oftall, you are fairly safe as the cheetah deems it
the abundant game. An experience in Africa is nottoo much work to try to bring you down.
complete without visiting some of their wildlifeOne of the tour guides explained how the De
refuge areas. While in South Africa be sure toWildt Cheetah Center breeds the animals and
tour the De Wildt Cheetah Center.they sell the animals to zoos and wildlife reserves.
The Cheetah Center is about a 50 minute driveThey work hard to maintain and continue the
from Johannesburg whether driving there bygenetic diversity in the cheetah and wild dog
private car, bus, or taxi. Once at the Center, apopulations.
tour guide drives visitors all around the park in aThe De Wildt Cheetah Center has quite a history
large green safari truck. The tour lasts about 3that began as a weekend getaway, then a family
hours and you can join a group or take a privatefarm, and finally evolved into a rescue center for
tour once there to enjoy the park. You must callinjured animals, eventually including two cheetah
and book in advance, expect to pay about 35 UScubs that were rescued and then removed from
dollars for the basic group tour. Tours arethe farm.
available in the morning or afternoon on mostCoincidentally, a nearby zoo desired to breed
days.cheetahs in captivity. The zoo realized they
While touring the Center, my personal favoritescouldn't do this in a metropolitan area and needed
were the cheetahs and the wild dogs. I wasspace to undergo such a project. They made an
intrigued by the chirping noise the Cheetah made.agreement to turn over the cheetahs to the De
They use this sound to call their young andWildt Estates, starting the Cheetah Center.
communicate amongst themselves. There wereSince then, the Center opened its land to tours,
also, several other types of animals includinghelping to not only raise badly needed funds, but
hyenas, meerkats, and vultures.helping instill a love and respect of the resident
Keep in mind children under the age of 6 are notanimals to all who are privileged to tour the
allowed on the tour because of close callsCenter.
between the cheetah and children despite adultFor insider secrets of the trade, and to discover
supervision. One tour guide explained that afirsthand how to save bundles of cash when you
cheetah jumped up at the truck trying to preyare traveling to Africa, click on the link below to
upon a child -unsuccessful, of course. The cheetahgrab your free report and I will show you how to
chooses smaller prey such as the gazelle, impala,make that happen.
hares, and game birds. So if you are over 5 feet