Wow! Your upcoming vacation sounds absolutely awesome! I'm so envious ;-) Driving around like that, enjoying the scenery and looking at old buildings and visiting little shops is exactly the kind of thing I love doing. It's the perfect vacation pretty much I've always thought.

Oooh, I didn't realise you were going to meet the tigers that close. It sounds so exciting! I would have had a terrible time choosing what to do. Meerkats are cute and so are red pandas but I think the final choice for me would have been between the serval and the tiger.