Photo of the Day – Casela Nature Park, Mauritius
Posing with a rare white lion in Casela
It’s not every day you get to pet a lion. But that’s exactly what I did here on Mauritius today! The island is home to the Casela Nature & Leisure Park, one of only three places in the entire world where you can interact one on one with lions, tigers and cheetahs. The Park also offers hour-long walks with the animals which are extremely popular and were booked up completely today. I settled for the interactive experience and was not disappointed. It was just me, my guide, a photographer and more lions than I could comfortably keep track of, alone in the enclosure. Thrilling and yet somewhat terrifying at the same time. It was a once-in-a-lifetime animal experience that may have even surpassed my reigning favorite animal encounter - swimming with the jellyfish in Palau.
