Rare Daytime Encounter with A Striped Hyaena.
We left camp at dawn for an early morning game drive in an area of woodland near the edge of the vast Serengeti Plain….
We left camp at dawn for an early morning game drive in an area of woodland near the edge of the vast Serengeti Plain….
As we arrived at the exclusive Kiba Point Lodge in the Selous Game Reserve (Tanzania), waiters greeted us with fresh towels and a frosty…
The last great wilderness areas in warm climes are in Africa. Most of these areas have only been dramatically effected by man in the…
After several years of conducting most of my safaris in East Africa, it has been wonderful to guide some safaris near home (Zimbabwe) again,…
We had left the lush green swamps of the Okavango Delta a day before. One of the last activities we did there was riding…
So, Wild Dogs hunting on Day One at Vumbura. Could Day Two possibly come close to that? The following afternoon we had planned a…
The African Wild Dog is one of Africa’s rarest large predators. Although they may look a little thin and sometimes mangy, I have a…
I catch the daily morning flight on KLM from Amsterdam to Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. The airport terminal disappears from view within a few minutes…
We were on safari to witness the wildebeest migration in the green season, when they tend to disperse on the Plains, and we did….
A contrast to the scenario from my previous post was to happen a few days later when we found two hungry sub-adult cheetah attempting…
Throughout the morning we had driven across the Plains through herds of wildebeest and zebra. Day and week old wildebeest calves were everywhere. Prey…
As the crew went about their work preparing the balloon, a lone wildebeest ran up to within about fifteen yards of it before running…