A mid-western family wins a six-week paid vacation down the Blyde River Valley Gorge in South Africa, but the vacation turns out to be straight from hell and only their love for each other and National Geographic saves all the lives in this family.

SYNOPSIS:

“Safari”

By Mark Mc Quown

Synopsis

“Safari” is an earth-shattering ride for the complacent lives of the Danielson

family from the Mid-Western United States. Their eleven-year-old son Shayne wins

a jungle jingle contest from a national juice company which sends the family on a

fully paid, four-week, vacation down the spectacular Blyde River Canyon Gorge in

South Africa.

What the family ends up winning is a one-way ticket into a jungle that is

being ravaged by a local rebel army seeking to take hostages as trade for political

prisoners held in South Africa.

A National Geographic Photojournalist, JoAnne Lindey and her equipment

manager, Mashu, land on the escarpment high above the river valley to do a photo

shoot for this international magazine.

The Danielson’s vacation begins by arriving at their safari hotel only to find it

on fire and under attack from enemy rebels. The Danielson’s spend almost a month,

traveling alone down through the valley, looking for anyone who could help them get

back to civilization.

JoAnne and her companion finally find the Danielson’s in a small village at the

other end of the gorge from where they started. The village is under fire from the rebels

who have followed the family there. The family barely escapes in a helicopter ordered up

by JoAnne through her magazine connection.

The Danielson family returns home as national and international heroes through the television news services. Their heroic efforts to stay alive and finally come home

alive are documented on national news stations and talk shoes.

In the end the family is back in their home and almost back to the life they left

before the contest but their lives will never be the same.

“Safari” is an incredible story about a family whose strength to stay alive in the

most formidable of places is a true story of heroes big and small. The love they share

"SAFARI"