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Safari Trip in the Everglades
I read some stuff about the Everglades before I arrived to Miami, so one of the days I booked a trip there. I found the tour at a temporary desk in Collins Avenue, and it turned out to be good value for the money.
The Everglades is a huge ecosystem, and actually it is a slowmoving river with tons of animals like turtles and alligators.
The trip was normally priced 55 dollars, but they had a 'special' price when I was there, so I paid 38 dollars. First a bus drove ud to another bus, which drove us the 45-minutes trip to the Safari Park in the Everglades. There we were welcomed by a hundredmeter-line of people who were waiting to enter the park.
I turned out to go pretty fast though, so 15-20 minutes after arriving we were sitting in an airboat ready to sail. It was an awesome ride with the airboat. The captain gave all of us ear plugs and started the big V8-engine, before he gave it full speed and we were sliding over the green grass and the brown mud. It was a nice experience, and we saw a few alligators and turtles on the way and lots of big birds.
Our captain was a nice guide, but there were some suspicious things about the tour. After the sailing we entered the park to view the alligators and attend a small alligator-feeding-show, and at least a few of the alligators we saw that day, was definately not moving at all. I know that alligators are lazy animals that doesn't move in 90% of their life, but after coming back to the hostel I am still wondering if some of them were plastic-alligators.
All in all it was a nice tour in spite of plastic-animals, cause some of them were definately real, huge and alive.
The busride back to South Beach took about three hours, cause the driver started out driving to the north of Miami to drop off some of the other guests, and we were dropped of as the last ones. We were told that the trip would be a little more than three hours, but it turned out to be more like six.
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