By Jemima Middleton. Photos by Cayley Christos “Do we know where we’re going?” “Yep.” This sounded fairly confident, so we leapt into the Concession 4×4 in our clean white shirts and smart black skirts, and headed out into the bush. We were running late, and had about a half-hour drive ahead of us, to a [...]
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An African adventure
Africa is a wondrous part of the world filled with wild places just waiting to be explored. In Swahili, safari means ‘journey’ and for the rest of this year we are travelling across eastern and southern Africa on a journey of discovery. We spent most of last year living in the Masai Mara where we [...]
Cause an Uproar!
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Okavango Endurance: Day 1
We recently returned from an epic 11 day endurance safari trekking by foot, canoe, car and air totalling 132 km over the Okavango Delta. Lions in camp, ellies crossing rivers, two minute noodles, vaselined blisters, canoes dodging hippos, singing and playing with the San of Gudikwa – here’s how it all began:
Kane the Bushman
Last week I had the good fortune of being email-introduced to a young man who goes by the name of Kane the bushman. Kane is a guide conducting private and walking safaris in the northern part of Botswana, along the edge of the Okavango delta. It was here, in the remote Bukakwe village of Gudigwa, that [...]
Okavango Odyssey Day 14 & 15: Pushing for Maun & the first cold beer
Long days of hundreds of Squacco Herons breeding in the brown grass along the main channel. On day 14 we saw a surprise African Skimmer sitting on the only sand bank I remember seeing for over a week. Awesome, awesome sighting. On our final day we recorded our 2,500th sighting and then went on to [...]
Okavango Odyssey Day 11: Harry’s Camp in Ma’Phiri Island – Long Day through the Xigera flats
Before going into our morning with the elephants I must emphasize the massive size of the crocodile we mokoro’d 30 cm over. Must have been 4 meters long and wider than the mokoro. On a narrow six meter wide dead-end off from the channel, this croc was able to disappear into a cave under the [...]
Okavango Odyssey Day 4: Sunbird Island to Burning Tree Island
Day 4 began very wet due to a harsh drop in nighttime temperatures that condensed our collective sweat from the day before onto our tents and everything else. Our tents and bags were soaked, the batteries and panels were sparking and now discharged, and everyone simply just looked a bit damper than they usually do [...]
Okavango Odyssey Day 2: Two-Shoe Island to Ellie Island (8km N of Jedibe)
Day 2 was a long hot trudge through a narrow maze of papyrus rafts, small lagoons and dense reed beds. We departed from what we named “Two Shoe Island” (we found two abandoned shoes from local fisherman on the island) at about 9am. We had to wait for the hippos that were very active the [...]
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Sunburn: Casablanca to Joburg!
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Hope for the Future: a scary split-up and the completion of stage one
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Stuck in the Okavango Delta in a mini-skirt
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Mountain gorilla habitat under siege in DR Congo
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Hope for the Future: dramatic scenery and ‘the day with the sunrise’
