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Safari, Soul & Transformation: Wildlife Wisdom with Salvador Anney of Geovannah Tanzania Adventures

What if a safari could do more than take your breath away — what if it could wake your soul back up? Today's guest has guided over 2,000 safaris across Africa, summited Mount Kilimanjaro 86 times, and built a company rooted in the belief that Tanzania doesn't just change your itinerary. It changes your life.

Salvador is the founder of Geovannah Tanzania Adventures — a safari and travel company that weaves together wildlife expertise, spiritual depth, and genuine community impact into every journey. Raised between Maasai and Datoga traditions, Salvador discovered his connection with animals long before he ever set foot in a university. He is a wildlife photographer, wilderness first responder, reflective theologist, and one of the most extraordinary guides working in Africa today. When his guests go home, they don't just have photos. They have a new relationship with life itself.

Guest Bio

Salvador Anney is the founder of Geovannah Tanzania Adventures and one of Africa's most experienced safari guides, with over 2,000 safaris led across the continent and 86 successful summits of Mount Kilimanjaro. Born into a family bridging Maasai and Datoga heritage, Salvador grew up alongside animals — learning their languages, behaviors, and social structures long before his formal studies in wildlife ecology at university, which included a year of field research in the Serengeti. He is a wildlife photographer, wilderness first responder, and reflective theologist whose deep spiritual grounding shapes every experience he creates. Beyond the safari, Salvador has built Geovannah into a force for lasting change through the Geovannah Foundation, which supports children's education and health in rural Tanzania, and an ongoing initiative delivering oxygen concentrators to remote communities. His Tripadvisor reviews are 100% five stars — and his guests consistently say the same thing: they left changed.

Host Bio

Karen Cleveland is the creator and host of Travel That Touches Your Soul. She is a safari host, spiritual teacher, and animal communicator devoted to helping people reconnect with what matters most through meaningful travel. Her work centers on connection with animals, land, culture, and inner truth, and the quiet inner knowing that says, this is the kind of life I came here to live.

Episode Topics and Timestamps

• Travel that nurtures the earth, empowers communities, and reawakens the wild within you (00:00)
• Welcome and introduction — Karen introduces Salvador Anney and Geovannah Tanzania Adventures (00:18)
• Growing up between Maasai and Datoga traditions — and why animals became his best friends (01:30)
• A year in the Serengeti — studying wildlife ecology and drawing lifelong parallels to the animals of his childhood (03:30)
• How Salvador reads animals in real time — alert calls, family hierarchies, and the lion pride's hunting strategy explained (06:00)
• Watching predators take prey — what Salvador feels, and why he sees beauty even in nature's hardest moments (14:00)
• Karen's gorilla encounter in Uganda and what Salvador believes animals are truly communicating (16:30)
• Why animals teach us more about love, endurance, and gratitude than most humans do (19:00)
• Why Salvador founded Geovannah — and what he witnessed that made him take the risk (22:00)
• The meaning behind the name Geovannah — Hebrew, theological, and deeply tied to the Tanzanian savanna (25:00)
• The Geovannah Foundation — the "Day in the Life" village experience and 13 children currently supported (28:00)
• Oxygen concentrators for rural Tanzania and the vision for Geovannah Healthcare (32:00)
• What guests fear before their safari — and what they say when they come home (35:00)
• Tanzania: the second most naturally beautiful country in the world after Brazil (39:00)
• The one animal Salvador would never want to meet alone in the dark — and it's not a lion (40:00)
• How to reach Salvador and book with Geovannah Tanzania Adventures (42:00)

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Hello, everyone, and

welcome back to the show.

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Wouldn't it be great to travel on an

adventure where it nurtures the earth,

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and it empowers the local communities,

and reawakens the wild within you?

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Well, our guest today is

going to talk about that.

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That's part of the vision of his company.

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This is Travel That Touches Your Soul

podcast and video channel, where we

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bring you the people and the places

around the world that help you connect

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with something greater than yourself

and help fulfill your heart's desires.

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I'm Karen Cleveland, and today's

guest has over 86 successful

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climbs on Mount Kilimanjaro.

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He has more than 2,000 safaris under

his belt across Africa, He's a wildlife

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photographer, a wilderness first

responder, a safari guide, a reflective

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theologist, and he brings both technical

expertise and spiritual depth into

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every safari or journey that he plans.

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I would like to welcome to

the show Salvador Anney.

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Welcome.

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thank you so much.

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You're welcome.,

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Just so everyone knows, I forgot to

tell you the name of the company,

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which is Geovanna Tanzanian Adventures.

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So Salvador, let's just start

with one of the, top questions.

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You have kind of a varied history,

and I think Your family wanted

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you to do something else, but you

chose to start a safari company.

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Do you wanna tell us a little more about

that, why you started a safari company?

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Uh, well, uh, thank you so much for

this opportunity, and, uh, thank

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you for having me here, uh, today.

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Well, I, I am so pleased and honored to,

and very humble to be here and to share

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a little bit about me and, Geovannah

Tanzania Adventures, the company that I,

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I, I was lucky to be- become its founder.

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So, since you mentioned a little

bit about my family, uh, it's true

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that my dad wanted me or wished me

I should become a medical doctor.

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But on my up growing, I used

to be so close to, to animals

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more than anything else.

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So because my parents were busy,

my mom was a nurse, and then

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my dad was a medical doctor, so

it's a busy parent, a busy home.

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I have seven siblings, and we are

eight in the family, so it, uh,

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somehow pushed me to find my…

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doing my own finding of what I feel

more comfortable or what I feel the best

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about, so then I I slowly get used to,

be- being close to animals, cows, goat,

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sheeps, and, you know, learning everything

about animals, studying about them.

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And, they become my, my best friends.

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So in the end, when I finish my, uh,

secondary education level, which it is

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the time we, we choose w- what we are

going to study in the university, then

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I choose to study more about animals.

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But then I found I get more interest

about, uh, studying the wildlife

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or animals in general with nature,

which is what I did in my university.

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it's wild- wildlife ecology in one of

the university we have in Tanzania.

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So yeah, that's it.

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, So, I know that you are a person

that is tuned into the energy

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of the land and the animals.

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can you say a little bit more about your

experience, your personal experience?

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So I know that you, you know, you go out,

you're guiding, you're driving, and you're

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in charge of the people in the vehicle,

but when you have your own moments to

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be quiet with the animals out on the

savanna, what does that feel like to you?

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What is that like?

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Well, uh, thank you so much again.

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, When I was growing up, as I mentioned

earlier, uh, when I was, getting those

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moment to be close to animals and

when you don't have someone to talk

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to, because my dad was Datoga, which

is Borana, and my mom is a Maasai.

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So, it was not easy for me when I

was around seven to 12 years of age.

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You know, when you follow your

father's cattles, and you find

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this Datoga, uh, older men or older

guys that they only speak Datoga,

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which is my dad tribal language.

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And for me, you know, I was born in a

medical family, and my first language

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that was introduced was Swahili, so

it was not easy for me to communicate.

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So most of the time I learned talking to

animals, listening to them, following to

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them, and always, , spend my time with

animals, uh, like cows and goat and,

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and learn a lot about animals' behaviors

and how they communicate, who leads the

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way, who is the leader, and who tells

when to go, what to go, and who is

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trusted in the, in that, particular herd.

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. So I learned that when I was very young,

as I grow up and I went to university

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study about animal behavioral and animals,

uh, together with their environment.

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I learn also a lot.

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I spent one year in the Serengeti

National Park studying about animal

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behaviors, of which, when you

combine or when you, uh, try to find

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similarities be-between cows and bovid,

which is buffalo, it's all the same.

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They're all bovid eyes.

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And if you come to talk about

goat and, uh, impalas and Thomson

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gazelles and, um, wildebeests, eland

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dik dik, redbuck,

bushbuck, gerenuk, impalas.

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Uh, so we have m- more than, uh,

I will say 20 something, 20…

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maybe 24 or 28 different

species of, of antelope.

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Wow.

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That's a lot.

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Of which…

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Yes.

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Of which when you, f- try to find

similarities about their, their

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behavior between them and the goats

that I have been with them, they

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have the same, same similarities..

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. So the longer I stayed in the

wilderness after my uni, I was

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just doing some similarities.

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And when I see zebra, I

remember my father's donkey,

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and I found the same behavior.

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When I, study about, , elephants, , it's

so much the same as, like, , buffalos,

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like rhinos, all these big animals.

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And remember w- w- places where we,

we graze our parents' cattles is a

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complete wilderness.

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So meeting these animals together-

Mm … finding them together with our

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parents' cattles, this was something

that was very common every day.

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So it was very common for me to

study these animals all this, , l-

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lifetime that I was growing and

before I left my father's house.

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I already know how to deal

with lion when you meet them.

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I already know how to- Wow … deal with

a hyena when she's attacking, your goats

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or when she's attacking, the sheeps.

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So for example, you meet a hyena,

immediately you have to be carefully

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where the sheeps are because have

number one priority will be the sheeps

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because they are stupid, they are slow,

and they don't- … care, you know.

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And, uh- Okay … and if, if one,

one sheep is being caught by a hyena,

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normally all the other sheep, they

come there and try to look what is

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happening, and hyena will start killing

others and others and- Oh, I see

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in the … Yeah.

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So, so yes.

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So to be, to, to be honest, I, I, I happen

to study about animals' behavioral, and

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now I reach to a point that I- Anywhere

I go, I can communicate with animals.

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And I try not only when I'm alone, but

even right now when I get opportunity

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to go to, to safari with our customers

Sometimes, you know, you, you give your,

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your customers, uh, private time because

all the time you are not with a group.

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So sometimes you're with the

couples- Right … honeymooners,

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lovers, or, um, a family.

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So you have to give those

moment to the family to enjoy

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their own private family time.

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Right, right.

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So when I look to the same animals

that I probably saw 2,000 times or

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10,000 times, and they're all the

time doing something different.

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I tried, and I, I always try, and I, I,

I will keep on doing it, that to learn

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and to study and try to understand their

language, how they communicate between

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the family member, and how to communicate

when there is a, there is a danger,

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how to give an alert, and what kind of

different alert calls that they have.

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How, um, how to communicate when there is

peace, when there is a welcoming on the

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table, and when to leave the table, and

who is the first to, to eat on the table,

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and who leads the way and who arrange, uh,

everything for, for the f- for the family.

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For example, let me give you a

little example about the, the lions.

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Okay.

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So the lions, uh, in any pride of lions,

there will be four leadings female.

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But these four females, they

will depend on one another.

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One female c- can do her own hunting if

she is very experienced or if is she is

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old enough, uh, and especially when she's

on the honeymoon time because she, she

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has to learn that from her mother- Mm

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because she has, she has to save

the life of the male when they

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are in this time of the honeymoon.

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Uh, because if she cannot do that,

this, uh, male can die during

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the honeymoon period because he

has five to seven days of mating,

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and every 20 minutes he do mate.

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And in the end- Wow … he cannot leave

this, this female because he's afraid

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another male can come and pass his gene.

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I see.

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So he will not leave his, this female

until he's super exhausted, and he

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cannot move anymore, and he is hungry.

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So for this female to make sure he,

he survive and he doesn't die because

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she needs him, he is the father of her

cubs- She will run quickly and go hunt.

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So all this behavior you can learn and,

uh, it's for me is no longer a problem.

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Like, uh, in just one blink of a eye,

I see a lion, a, uh, or a leopard or a

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cheetah or any animals in the wilderness.

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I will tell you what they are about to do

or what they are doing and why they do it.

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And for me, it's so easy now to understand

and to, to, to really give you the,

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uh, the definition or the, uh Uh, the

translation of what they are doing- Right

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and what they are about to do.

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So, uh, for, for example, when I said

about four females, like one female

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will lead towards the prey, and

this one female, the first female,

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she will go straight to the prey.

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Maybe she can choose to go

straight or she can go around.

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So when she chase the prey from

the other side, she, she push it

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towards the three other female.

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Right.

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So when she, when she's … When she

surrounded her and she show herself,

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the prey automatically will run onto

the other direction, and that other

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direction, she just has to show

herself or try to chase her, the prey.

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So when she run to the other

direction, the other female

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will s- will start chasing.

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So when she start chasing, she will chase

to make sure the direction she's chasing

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is where the other two females are.

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So the, the third female

will join the chase.

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Because the prey is coming to

her direction, she will catch.

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She will be the catcher.

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And the fourth female, she will come,

then she, she is the killer, and she

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will kill by strangulation, and this is

the lion technique, uh- Wow … styles

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that, yeah, behavior that they use

to, to kill their prey, which is very

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good if you think of, uh, all the

animal kingdom or all the predators.

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This, uh, um, killing technique

of … that has been done by the lions

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is much more better compared to the

one that is been done by the, uh, dogs

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family, which is all Felidae, like,

uh, uh, wild dogs, jackals, and hyenas.

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Because hyenas, they don't strangulate.

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They don't kill their, their

prey f- first, but they will

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just start eating before- Yeah

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the prey is alive.

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So this is- That's horrid … uh, this is

really, really bad, and this is what we

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call, uh, continuous biting, so it is bad.

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So this is just, uh, uh, one example

of how I, I can share with you about

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the nature and the wildlife and

the, and the wilderness in general.

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. Uh, it, it's very interesting.

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I have, actually quite a few questions,

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. so let's say they've got a zebra

or whatever it is that they have.,

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If you're in that moment with all

those animals and the lion get their

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prey and they kill it, is it hard for

you to watch the death of an animal?

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I mean, I'm sure you've

seen a bunch of them.

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Or what goes through your head for that

zebra and their family, or the baby, or

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what- whatever it is that they've caught?

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Oh, well, um, you know, when you,

when you love nature, you have to

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love nature with, uh, everything

that na- nature, nature brings.

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Because nature, it has its selections.

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It has-- It makes decisions.

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So what I can tell you, it's really sad to

see a lion or a leopard or any predators

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taking life of a, a baby antelope

or a baby zebra or a baby elephant.

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So when it's a baby, and yet they

don't know how to survive and how

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unfair this-- the life is and how a

vulnerable home they were born in.

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So it's, it's something that I

always pray that I should not see

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this, and God has been kind to me

enough not to be seeing this a lot

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because this is what I-- it's really

disturbs me not not to forget easily.

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It will goes maybe two weeks or a

month maybe to forget about seeing a,

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a newborn or a little baby being eaten

or being killed because, uh, there is

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millions and millions of animals, of

food from old, uh, animals, uh, wounded.

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Some of them, they, uh,

they have broken their legs.

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They're limping.

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They are old.

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But because nature has its own selections

we have nothing to do about it.

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But I will be happy, and I'm always

happy when lion taking a life of a very

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old buffalo who d- who don't have both

a lower jaws and upper jaws teeth, and

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they are striving to survive because they

cannot even graze, they cannot even eat.

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Mm.

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So I would be happy to see that because,

uh, the buffalos or the wildebeests,

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longevity is about, uh, 25, 25 years.

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20 to 25 years.

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So when they are old and, and they cannot

eat, so for, for them not to be starving

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and going through a lot of stress, I,

I prefer lions takes them, you know?

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Yes..

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So all the time when you are out there

in the wilderness, when you look at

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animals, everything they do, they do

it with their complete, , decisions

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or with their complete heart.

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But, , if I talk like of,, for example, of

the primates, which are the most , maybe

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number two most intelligent creatures

or animals that God ever created.

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I'll say animals after the octopus.

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So they are, are really , a good

example of what it takes or what it

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needs to, to show love, to show re-

respect, and to show dignity to your

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family and to those that you love.

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Because everything that animal

do, they do it with a lot of love

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and with no, uh, uh, playing games

around and no, no show-up games.

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So it's, uh, it's really nice

to see animals are doing that.

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And when you see they are doing

it, you understand that they

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do it with a complete love.

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That's why for me, I love animals.

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And when you read, when you see,

when you experience their lifetime…

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For example, if you could have g- got

a chance to follow the life of this

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silverback, uh, gorilla, at least

for one week, you will learn a lot.

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If you are a man, you will

learn how to treat your family.

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Hmm.

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And if you are a woman, a mother, you

will learn how to treat your family,

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right.

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People feel

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Nowadays, a cleaning for my

family, or I do this for my family.

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People feel the weight.

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People are complaining a lot.

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So the only reason for me when I was,

uh, choosing what I should study,

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, the, the reason I choose animals

because I have been with animals.

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Animal broke their legs, animals got

sick, and I remember my two older brothers

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were f- outside of the country, Tanzania.

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Excuse me.

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So I was the only one, the oldest

in the family, so I was the one

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taking care of the, of the cattles.

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When they broke their leg, you

can tie their leg, try to help

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them and re- to rejoin the bones.

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They don't cry.

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They don't make noise.

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They're just quiet.

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Mm.

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You know?

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You, you give them injection.

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You treat them.

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Sometimes they are sick, they do this.

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They, they don't complain, you know.

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… I don't know who taught them to endure,

, any kind of pain, any kind of suffering.

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So, so when I learn from my father

taking me to the hospital every day and

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people are complaining- uh, so much.

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You're helping them.

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They are not thankful.

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They are not grateful.

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Then for me it's…

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I said, "No I wanna help, uh, maybe

the small babies, like the newborns

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or animals, something that does not

complain, something that appreciate,

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something that will thank me.

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Even if they cannot speak, but in

their hearts you can learn that

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this, o- um, this human being or

this creature is being grateful.

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I'm sure, uh, all this time in your

entire life you have learned or you

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have probably read a story about someone

helping a, a, a, a bird or someone helping

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a particular animals, and these animals

will keep coming- Yeah … to their home.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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So you, you, you, you come to l- to

realize that, , we are all created equal,

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and God created every living thing with,

, with so much love and so much, , respect.

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, I love animals so much.

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My love for animal is too high compared

to anything else, I can tell you,

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because they are so grateful, they are

so thankful, and they can see you- your

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heart, and they can trust you, a trust

that your own wife or your own children

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that you give birth to, they cannot give.

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So, uh, that is my

experience with the nature.

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Awesome.

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I, I love that.

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you know,

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The

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Karen Cleveland: guests that come on their

first safari, and they're so excited,

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what do you hope that they walk away

with after being on one of your safaris?

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Well, I, I, it is not what I hope for

s- uh, Karen, it is what I deliver.

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It's why, why Geovannah

Tanzania Adventure is existing.

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Actually, uh, to clarify that, let me

just tell you why Geovannah was found.

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Sure.

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So when, when, when I was looking

for a job and never was not easy

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to find a job, then I, I decide to,

to, to work for the private company.

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And then when I start

leading their, uh, groups

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Karen Cleveland: After the first company,

I worked with the second company, , and

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then later on I worked with, Tanzania and,

and Germany-owned company so in this, all

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this time, I learned that, whoever come

to Tanzania, they come here for love.

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There is so many places in this world

to, to visit, and whoever chooses

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my home, they have a great love for

this, , , the, for this country.

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And I'm sure I know a lot of

people, they read nowadays

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information from the internet.

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But for someone to trust, to come all

the way from Europe, all the way from

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America, or all the way from Australia,

all the way from, uh, Scandinavia,

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like Denmark, Finland, and all that,

they have heard, no, if not from their

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family, probably from their friends,

that Tanzania is the best place to visit.

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Seeing that people coming to my

homeland and having this experience

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with me, with nature and experience

the la- the nature loving energy.

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Uh, for me, seeing this whole experience

changing people's life, I saw that

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there is a need for me to take such a

big risk because it's not easy for such

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a, a normal, uh, family man like me to

start up, up, to put a, a tour company

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in Tanzania because it's expensive.

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There's a lot to go through.

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Uh, there's a lot of

documentation as well.

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So, and there's also marketing side.

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You don't know who will

send you customers.

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You don't know how to find them.

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So I, I decide to take such a big risk

because I saw there is a need that

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not … From not only this talking

about service, but also I saw that if

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people were, getting, uh, their life

change, their energy being changed,

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their life and brain being awakened from,

from just being with us or being with

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me in my homeland just for one week.

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And then I saw there is a big need

for me to start a company and build

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a team that will keep seeing and

keep delivering what I saw or what

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I observed for this homeland and for

anyone who, uh, chooses my homeland.

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Okay.

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So- Yes … so you, you came

up with the name Geovannah.

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Tell us about the name..

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Geovannah is a Hebrew n- uh, word

which means, a precious gift from God

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But whether, , from Hebrew or Greek

or, , Latin, it's a feminime, it's

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a feminime , word . And for me, when

I was studying theology, I learned,

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uh, anything with a female name

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or any business or anything in this life

that we wish, or we expect for it to give

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life, it should carry a female in it.

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So I decided to give, uh, the company name

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Geovannah

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Karen Cleveland: and because of

the activity we do, we do, it

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also s- stands for the Earth.

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And geo stand for the Earth, and

vanna stand for the savanna, which

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it is,, majority of the percent of,

, Tanzanian, , land, it's, , savanna.

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Okay.

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So it represent, geologically, it

represent my country, and, theologically,

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because of my theology, because of,

, of what I have learned and what I've

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come to realize, to understand about

the creation and also about the, the

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principle of the manufacturer to have

a name that is a female name Which

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it means a precious gift from God.

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Then I saw this is a perfect name

for me and for the company and

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for so, for s- for, for so many

people that will be within and that

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will be behind of this company.

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And just ex, uh, just after I decide

to give this name and, and I start

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writing it on the papers, documents

for registration, and before we even

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receive any customer Geovannah begins

to give birth to so many things.

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Now there is an ongoing project from,

, which is for Geovannah University,

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and there is a Geovannah Foundation,

which is also ongoing project.

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, And there is a Geovannah, , healthcare or

Geovannah Hospital one day if God wish.

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So there is already three big project

which, , is directly f- , facing or aiming

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to serve, , a life or to, , to bring a

change for the next generation to come.

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So why Geovannah University?

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In Tanzania, there are probably

five big university, but none

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of them, they teach theology.

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It is so important, for the young

generation to s- to, to have that

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understanding of why they were created

so unique and and what are the…

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what are his principle of how we should

happily live this life with a great

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love without confronting each other or

without confronting, without hating,

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without taking from somebody else's.

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I feel and I know our God is so

great, and He has put so much

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enough for every one of us.

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And that's why every year when

there is a new baby, there is a new

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mineral being discovered somewhere.

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There is something new, new.

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There is something, uh, uniquely

being designed somewhere.

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There is, um, gas being

discovered somewhere.

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There is this, there is this, and

I'm sure God has plenty for us

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because He is the most businessman

that I know in this planet.

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So, and that is, , the name Jovanna

gave birth to Jovanna University,

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which is what is, uh,

really our main mission.

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So another, uh, new baby

comes from this name Jovanna.

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It's the Jovanna Foundation.

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So this is how we created it.

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Uh, in all the packages we have one day.

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It can be between the, the trip,

or it can be at the end, or it,

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or it can be in the beginning.

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It just depends on where the customers

are starting their safari or where

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they are starting their tour,

from which direction of Tanzania.

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So we will have this one day,

we call it Day in the Life.

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So this is the unique experience

that we do, and nobody else in this

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travel industry in Tanzania, . we

give opportunity to all our customers.

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Anywhere they will be according to

their itinerary, they will have a

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moment to visit different family.

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Every group, every trip,

they visit different family.

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Mm.

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And once .. in those families,

we discover there is a child,

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there is someone, especially young

generation, that's our main focus.

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There is a child

struggling to go to school.

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There is a girl, uh, got

married before , her time.

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There is, , a f- female circumcision.

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There is somebody's right being taken

away, and we feel we can do something

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about it, and this is where we take a,

a, a step in to talk to the family and to

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help this child with the need, and this is

being done through a Jovanna Foundation.

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And right now we have about

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14 kids.

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Not 14,

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Karen Cleveland: 13 kids that are being

supported by the Jovanna Foundation.

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Wow.

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So yes.

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Yes.

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And they are from different

family, from different tribes,

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and we are not doing this.

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We are doing this through our customers

because they are the one that, , talk

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to the family and get the translation.

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Most of the family now, these young,

uh, girls and boys, they speak English.

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So- Yeah, yeah

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Our client by themselves, they will find

or they will see if there is a need, and

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they will bring those, those experience

to the office, , through our feedback

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forms, and then we do a follow-up.

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- We also have our guide along the, all the

trip, and they also give us feedback, and

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once we see a need, we help these kids.

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And most of the, , of the things that we

do is education or health issue once they

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have this, and we are really, , focusing

on those things, so health and education.

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So, , another baby that was born,

uh, after the Jovanna was started

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is, uh, Jovanna Hospital or Jovanna,

uh, Healthcare, which has not started

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yet, but this is something that

we, we, we really want to do it.

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. So we bring this oxygen

concentrator from Australia, which

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are very, very, uh, last model.

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They were built in 2018, and now

there are about, uh, 40 or 44 in

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Tanzania just itself, and one oxygen

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concentrator, um, can

cost 40 to 45 US dollar.

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This is, um, a very big achievement, and

we have, we have been able to brought,

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um, more than 40 now in Tanzania, and

we are giving this oxygen concentrator

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to those rural areas where they, a lot

of lives are being lost because there

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is no oxygen- Mm … uh, supplementary

oxygen to give to a mother or a

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child during a, a ch- a child birth.

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So that is, uh, the meaning

shortly of the, of Jovanna.

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I, um, I apologize if I went so far.

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But, uh, Jovanna gave birth

to everything, to- Yeah, it's

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giving birth to a lot, isn't it?

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Uh, very inspiring.

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Yes.

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All the great work that is

coming out of a safari company.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Do your guests tend to come to

you with a particular fear that

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they, , realize was just not rational

until after they went on the safari?,

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Uh, well, a lot of people they,

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They come here having

different, uh, perspective.

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Karen Cleveland: they will come, they

come here, they have read, uh, all the

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red flags about Africa and Tanzania,

and after they experience, they end

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up, being a very, not only happy

customers, but a friends of a lifetime.

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Mm-hmm.

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I have not, I have never met anyone who

complained for choosing this country.

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I have not met anyone.

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Someone can not be happy just for small,

small reason, but in the end you can

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see the review that the people are li-

are writing, the, uh, the happiness

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that they show, the experience that

they share, the people they keep sending

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back, you will understand that these

people are happy and something has been

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changed in their, in their, in their life.

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Uh-huh.

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And not something small, something big.

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Yes.

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You know, I, I, I don't know if

this is, you will agree with this,

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but I know God has created a,

a, uh, us in a very unique way.

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So sometimes when we get through a lot

of stress we- We somehow being shut

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down by how hard the world is kicking us.

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Mm.

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And some of us, we don't,

uh, stand up again.

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Some of us, we end up

being, there permanently.

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But when, when you c- when you get

a chance to come to Tanzania, and

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especially to have your experience

with Geovannah, you will get your soul

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and mind and heart being awaken again.

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And when you go back home,

your energy will be different.

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Mm.

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And you will forget about giving up.

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Mm.

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And you will come to realize that

life, it's something, it's a gift

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that is, uh, very beautiful and

we should enjoy it and cherish it.

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Yeah.

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That's beautiful.

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And that is … Yes, yes.

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I think that's what people

need in their lives too.

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And I just wanna point out to

the guests that your Tripadvisor

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reviews are extraordinary.

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They're all five-star, uh, and there's

over 50 of them, so it's not like there's

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five people that wrote a five-star review.

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It's, it's nice to see that the guests

are leaving reviews and they are all,

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, impressed, and they leave changed.

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Like you said, they leave changed.

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So if there's someone that has never

been on safari, that they wanna go

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and they're kinda thinking about it,

what do you recommend, um, they do?

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. Okay.

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So, um, if someone wants to come to

Tanzania and experience, and have a, an

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amazing experience- In Tanzania, to all

that I just explained, and they will be

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happy to be part of the change that we

are aiming to do in this life, then they

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should come to Geovannah and they can s-

could simply just go to our website and

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send a WhatsApp message or send an email.

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and we are 24 hours available

to, to respond to your email,

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and that will be less than an

hour, , to reply to all your need.

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And if you don't get the team, you

will get me, myself, and that will

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be, , how easy it is to, , to reach

Geovannah Tanzania Adventures.

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The website is Geovannah

Tanzania Adventures,

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www.Geovannahtanzaniaadventures.com.

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Okay.

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That is the website.

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Okay.

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But our email, official email,

[email protected].

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Our phone number which

is a WhatsApp number.

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So if you're in the, in anywhere in

this world, you can, um, You can reach

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us through our phone number through

WhatsApp 24 hours, and this is, , easier

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for me to, to respond and very quick.

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My number is a US number,

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Okay.

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Perfect.

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Yes.

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And that's on the website as

well, . That is also on the website.

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Yeah.

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Karen Cleveland: Fantastic.

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Yes.

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, And one last question.

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Um,.

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If you're walking by yourself in the dark

out in the savanna, what's the one animal

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that you would be most afraid to see?

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well, if, if I'm walking out in the dark,

the only animals that I don't want to

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meet at night is, um, a honey badger.

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A honey badger?

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Yes.

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Okay.

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Not a buffalo, not a lion.

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A honey badger.

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Tell me why a honey badger.

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because honey badgers are

not, , very good animals.

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Though I like them and I, I

really, , , found, , myself so

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much interested with them because

they don't have any predators.

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They are actually r- the one ruling

all the savanna, and- Really?

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Yes.

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And they go after everything.

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They eat anything.

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Huh.

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So yeah.

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So if you, if you, if you happen

to meet them at night, you will be

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in big trouble because they, they

prefer to go after your soft organs,

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and I don't want to experience that.

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No, I think not.

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A- and they probably don't

suffocate you first, do they?

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They probably don't kill you first.

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No.

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No.

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They don't.

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Yeah, that sounds like- That

is the worst part, yes, yes.

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Okay, so- So that is my, my

worries to, to be walking in the

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wilderness at night and it is dark.

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But another, uh, little worry is

also to meet a leopard, but it's

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easy to, to notice a leopard because,

uh, their eyes are shining at night.

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So when you know and you can

identify animals even through their-

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Their eyes, they show this is lion,

this is hyena, this is a dog, this

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is cat Wow … and it, you can,

uh, uh, do something about it.

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But if your Jeep is far away from

you, then I'm afraid you can be

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a dinner, you know, or lunch.

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Yes..

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All right.

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And, , before we go, is there anything

else you want to tell people that

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I neglected to ask you about, about

the company or about Tanzania?

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Yes.

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Well, I have a lot of things to

share with, uh, with the world, w-

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with anyone, uh, who loves nature

and who loves, uh, traveling.

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Uh, people must know that Tanzania is the

second country in the world for having

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a lot of natural beauty after Brazil.

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well, Salvador, thank you so

much for being on the show today.

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Uh, you gave us a lot of information

about you and the animals, the

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savanna, and what's going on with

Geovannah, um, and what to do next.

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So I encourage people, you

know, to go to the website.

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There's a free Tanzania planning guide

on it you can sign up for, and thank

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you for being on the show, Salvador.

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Thank you so much, Karen.

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Yeah.

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It's, uh, such a pleasure and an honor

to, for you to have me on your show

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today, and I, I really thank you for,

um, giving me opportunity to talk about,

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uh, me a little bit, and also to talk

about Jovanna Tanzania Adventures.

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All right.

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Well, you're welcome, and . Thank you

everyone for listening and watching,

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and we will talk to you later.

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Bye-bye.

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Thank you so much.

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Hello from Tanzania.