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Pot Yourself an Ethical Safari
More firms are making it possible to see wildlife in comfort, and keep a clear conscience.
Mark Rowe reports 20 June, 2010
Visit their website now: http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/africa/pot-yourself-an-ethical-safari-in-africa-2005202.html
| | | | | Dangerously close to nature
Saturday, August 23, 2008
After the initial nerves, Manchán Magan grew to love hiking in blissful isolation through a Zambian safari paradise teeming with animals - while all the time being fully aware that he was slower, fatter and probably tastier than any other animal out there.......
I'M GLAD I watch Who Wants to be a Millionaire? It taught me that hippos kill more people in Africa than any other animal and that they can run up to 30km an hour. This may have saved my life when I arrived at Tafika bush camp in northeast Zambia, and saw the two hippos standing on the lawn. I knew to stay inside the jeep. The camp's owner, John Coppinger, seemed to know otherwise. He came out to greet me and even tried opening the door, but there was no way I was getting out. I pressed down the lock and pointed in the direction of the hippos. He seemed completely unfazed, saying "hippos!" with a shrug, in the tone that others use for wasps.
Visit their website now: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/travel/2008/0823/1219416975216.html
| | | | | THE SMART SAFARI GUIDE
From The Sunday Times August 3, 2008
They’re the planet’s megafauna, and seeing them in the wild can be a life-changing experience. But only if you pick the right tripBrian Schofield
Sshh, quiet,shut up, there it is! Where? I can’t see it. Will you just be still for two seconds? It’s over there. Where? I can’t see a bloody thi ... AAAAAHHH, there it is!
In an instant, the whole trip makes sense. When you travel to see wildlife, sometimes two weeks away from home can boil down to a few minutes of quality time in the company of your dream creature. ..........
Visit their website now: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/holiday_type/wildlife/article4442958.ece
| | | | | Hippo therapy - Zambia By Roger Bray
Published Date: 22 June 2008
It's not every day a hippo wakes you with its noisy chewing or an elephant threatens to mow you down. But then a Zambian safari on foot is not exactly your average walk in the park
THE elephant, standing alone on the far side of a dry water hole, seems benign enough. If she sees the red mist she'll have to cover a lot of ground to reach us, and even if she does decide to charge, she looks, to the untutored eye, cumbersome enough to dodge.
Visit their website now: http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/spectrum/Hippo-therapy--Zambia.4207182.jp
| | | | | Black Rhino Translocation 2008 3 June 08
There is nothing quite like the smell of fresh rhino dung early in the morning, the sound of contact calls and munching on browse or the feel of rough, fissured hide to get the senses reeling from a week culminating in five black rhino arriving at North Luangwa airstrip, 28th May 2008.
It all started a couple of months ago with the ....
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| | | | | 10 Amazing Affordable Safaris
Safaris and safari lodges have gone way upscale, with prices to match. Here are 10 strategies to cut the cost and still get the lion’s share of game-viewing
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| | | | | Lessons From Africa by Evalyn Bemis
For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings, they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.”
—Henry Beston, 1928
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| | | | | From The Times
From The Times
April 7, 2007
It’s a happy weekend – there’s good news bursting out all over
Simon Barnes: Wild Notebook
I must confess, that a small part of my heart is still in the Luangwa Valley in Zambia. But then it always is. It’s a week and more since I got back: but I can still see that crazy river, that ultimately wild stretch of water. The river is untamed, creating a new course every year, creating new oxbows and lagoons that stay there for a while, and then go again, when the Luangwa next makes one of its melodramatic changes of course.
I sat on the river in a canoe, the better to make eye contact with the hippos and the crocs. When the river is this high, you never seem to be on a river: always a lake, because you can’t see the join, no matter which way you look.
I remember when John Coppinger, who owns the unspeakably lovely Tafika camp, first offered me the chance to go up in his microlight as a pillion passenger, years ago. My first thought was yes, what a blast; my second no, no point. Just a stunt. Just bungee-jumping. My third thought: my God, bloody well grab it quick, this is the chance to see the most beautiful place on earth as I have never seen it before.
And so, on my last trip, I was up there again with Coppinger: always savouring that moment of take-off, when the lake of the Luangwa turns into the mad, mad river, lashing its snake-like way across the valley over the endless millennia. I saw elephant and eland and giraffe from the air: and we saw things the earthbound traveller can never experience: the tree-top cartwheel nests of saddle-billed storks, and the crowned cranes nesting deep in impassable marsh. Counted eggs, counted chicks.
But above all, we saw the river: this insane stretch of water that has had me in its thrall for all but 20 years. Riding pillion, unobstructed view through three equally wild dimensions: at one even with the great bateleur eagle himself. Life: worth saving, yes?
Visit their website now: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/simon_barnes/article1624081.ece
| | | | | ZAMBIA IN THE WET SEASON MARK HODSON
From The Sunday TimesMarch 18, 2007
Everybody goes on safari in the dry season; but are we missing a trick? Mark Hodson takes a look
Mark Hodson
According to conventional wisdom, the best time to go on safari in Africa is the dry season. The logic is simple: as the bush becomes increasingly parched, the animals have fewer and fewer places to find water. Grab yourself a good vantage point close to a watering hole and spotting game becomes........
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| | | | | The Bradt Travel Guide to Zambia - Online
Learn a lot more about Zambia from the online Zambia travel guide– a comprehensive version of Bradt’s Zambia guidebook. This text is an edited section of Zambia: The Bradt Travel Guide (Ed. 3), written by Chris McIntyre of Expert Africa, and published by Bradt Travel Guides. Visit the site to buy this book online, and see all of its text, pictures, and detailed maps with GPS coordinates.
Visit their website now: http://www.zambia-travel-guide.com
| | | | | NASA PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE LUANGWA RIVER FLOOD
This link show a Nasa photograph of the Luangwa River flooding in February 2007. Click on the large Image – pity most of the Valley is under cloud, but it gives you a good idea of what happened..
Visit their website now: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/shownh.php3?img_id=14110
| | | | | MICROLIGHT FANTASTIC - ZAMBIA
No time for a full-on flying safari? No problem – Lyn Hughes skims over Zambia on an unforgettable microlight flight
This article first appeared in Wanderlust issue 76 (Dec 2005/Jan 2006)
Visit their website now: http://www.wanderlust.co.uk/features/feat76d.html
| | | | | FALLS PARADISE by Douglas Rogers The Guardian
Falls paradise
When Douglas Rogers was growing up in Zimbabwe, Zambia was considered a wild and under-developed neighbour - precisely what makes it such a hot safari ticket today
Saturday July 22 2006
The Guardian
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| | | | | WHY TOURISM IS IMPORTANT TO ZAMBIA
ZAMBIA: FERTILE BUT HUNGRY
By Peter Biles
BBC southern Africa correspondent
As you drive around the Zambian countryside, to the north and south of the capital, Lusaka, it is sometimes difficult to understand why there is a food crisis in this country.
Visit their website now: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4678592.stm
| | | | | The Last Real Africa by Christine K Eckstrom
"The Society of American Travel Writers announced the 2007 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism winners. Among magazines, National Geographic Traveler won five awards, including the Bronze winner Christine K. Eckstrom, for her article “The Last Real Africa,” in the March-April 2007 issue of National Geographic Traveler."
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