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Eco Report: African Wildlife Safari Highlights the Wet Season
The main goal of the trip was to present Africa in the rainy season to show that Africa isn’t just the dry dusty environment that most visitors see. Our second purpose was to show the breadth of diversity, from the dry desert landscape of Damaraland to the lush forests of the Luangwa with the waters of the Okavango in between!
Wonderful memories of our travel experience include:
That sundowner drink on our first afternoon at Serra Cafema: the black storm clouds, the beautiful rainbow and the sunlit mountains. Beautiful!!!
In the Okavango, completely surrounded by water at Vumbura, there is the special memory of the wild dogs hunting in the morning as well as the quiet passage of the mekoro through the waterways and lily pads and tiny frogs responsible for the magical musical sounds at night.
Mombo, with its abundance of game and beautiful camp setting, is always an amazing place and we were extremely privileged to see tiny leopard cubs. Lions fighting ferociously over the giraffe kill were a highlight too.
We saw cheetah at Duma Tau and a real personal highlight for me was seeing the Savuti Channel with so much water in it after being lucky enough to see it dry up in 1983. It is, of course, always so incredible to see the beautiful carmine bee-eaters catching insects alongside the vehicles as we drove through the long grass. That’s a sight you won’t see any other time of year.
Excerpts from the Welcome Home Letter written by Expedition Leader Lex Hes for our February 2008 Back to Africa program.
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