marching ants. These performances gather crowds in increasing number as a result of prudent marketing. Whilst rare wildlife often attracts tourists, the destination or the uniqueness or exclusiveness of the experience are also important. The Midnight Zoo in Singapore, for example, is an alternative approach to passive-interactive wildlife adventure tourism. Here a philips specialist lighting enhineer has manipulated nature and designed illumination systems that do not upset the biorhythms of the animals in the dark of the tropical evenings, yat allow them to be brightly illuminated for the visitors. The night-time adventure inside small open carriages takes passengers close to docile animais that are were neither of the light nor of the closseness of their visitors, Similarly, exclusivity features in other forms in wildlife adventure tourism. The Linblad Explorer, an ex-research and exploration ship later purchased for adventure tourism, roamed exotic location in the 1970s and 1980s. Continuously travelling around the world, tourists flew out to the boat for exclusive and expensive luxury adventure holidays, ranging from the foray into the jungles of the Amazon to landings in the frozen wastes of the Antarctic. The safari market also has its exclusive luxury niche, with venues like Kleins Camp (situated on the edge of Kuka Hills just outside the Serengeti National Park). The main building was once a privatebhunting lodge and is now a wildlife sanctuary set within 10000 acres leased form the Masai community by Conservation Corporation Africa. No more than twenty guests areallowed at any one time; advertisements state that there is no camping involved and the bathrooms sport showerheads the size of dinner plates; the promotional material comments that the trek to get there as being 'well worth it' and part of the adventure, and this costs approximately US$500 per night.