Tag: wildlife
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Maasai Conservation Lands, Volcanoes & Sour Milk
At the viewpoint, the late afternoon is spent with the sun setting over Longido and the banded colours of twilight over Meru and Kilimanjaro at height
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Liwonde Park, Cold Drinks & Ilala Palms
Our roof top tent pops up once again, but this time at Liwonde Safari Camp which I like a lot. The camp has a great Gaudi-esque feel to it
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Chipata to South Luangwa National Park, Warthogs & Lions
Under the sausage trees we find a hippo every once in a while munching comically on the fruit in the spot light.
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The Okavango, Khwai & Community Development
It is September and the Kalahari Apple Leaf trees are flowering in a violet haze. There is a maze of kalahari sand tracks leading haphazardly through the grasses often ending abruptly in some seasonal marshland
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Etosha National Park, Salt Flats & Rhinos
Stretching as far we can see, a hazy flatland of white cracked clay curves a horizon in front of us. For an unknown reason, a lonely oryx traipses across the scenery leaving an infinite trail of hoof prints behind
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Kavango River, Dog Pee & Tiger Fishing
Eventually we find the “perfect paradise” I had penciled time in for on the Caprivi leg of the trip. A few kilometres after the Cuito River meets the Cubango River is the best campsite ever
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New Countries, Egrets & Flooded Rivers
We see obvious tyre tracks in the sand and so decide to test the first bridge. The planks plink and plonk but reassuringly there’s no snapping sound nor tearing of metal beneath. The local villagers washing clothes, swimming and fishing nearby don’t even look up at the sight of us so we decide all is…
The Colour of Travel 