Sad Beauty

Caution!!.. . This is a Sad history about my travel to Lujan

Diary of Board (Diário de Bordo)
Chapter 01

First I want to introduce myself, My name is Isnard Costa, Brazilian 29 years old.
I work at a Cruise Ship company traveling the world. And I'd like to share a little about the 41 countries I've met and how is life on a cruise ship.

Before telling how everything started and how a 22 year old boy from a poor family got to know the world, I want to tell you about the visit to the famous Lujan Zoo in Buenos Aires Argentina and my experience of taking the most beautiful photos and sad times that I took from all my travels.

Rumo a Argentina.

On my first day on board the Grand Mistral from Ibero Cruzeiros.
The ship left the port of Rio de Janeiro bound for Buenos Aires Argentina.
It was the first time I left Brazil, this was my first international trip.

As soon as we arrived at the port of Buenos Aires, we were greeted by taxi drivers who offered the chance to take photos with Wildlife on a tour to Lujan City, 1 hour away, immediately my friends I and we accepted and went to Lujan.

Arriving there, our guide began to tell the amazing story of the zoo, where the founder, a very wealthy gentleman started collecting cars and his hobbie was raising the level and began collecting animals. Soon it had more than 300 specimens that were created loose
In his farm (Place of the Current Zoo). Throughout our journey we find many dogs and even with lions, and we are told that thanks to the dogs lions are docile, since they live together since they are young.
I was delighted to see the harmony between the animals and I began to take incredible photos with wild animals.
My happiness was great in being close to the animals, so on my first trip abroad, I was driven by emotion and did not think much, I soon accepted the story of docile animals.

It was very exciting and at the same time frightening to be able to enter the cage with a tiger.

Kneeling next to a Lion, Wow incredible. It was an exciting day.
But as he left, a new taxi driver told us the true sad story behind the paradise where animals lived in harmony. There was a secret in the bottles with Milk, in fact it is full of sedatives. The animals remain sedated 24 hours a day.
And to take my picture I was contributing to it, giving that poor animal a sedative.
My beautiful pictures have become sad.

Do not make the same mistake I made, if you go to Buenos Aires do not visit the Lujan Zoo. Soon I will post a little of each adventure I have traveled around the world and promise to share stories with happy moments. Other than that.

Isnard Costa