Category: South Africa 2016

Along the road from Mpika to Lusaka on an 8 hour car ride (ah, sort of smooth asphalt) on the last leg of our journey and my last post for… Read more »

I am in a tent under a full moon in the Bangweulu Wetlands Park in Zambia.   We are the only ones camping here — we are the only car… Read more »

Flying in a 6-seater chartered Cessna prop plane, Laura, Tom, Melanie and myself fly North to the least developed and isolated game park in Zambia, the North Luangwa Park.  … Read more »

Outside the boundaries of the South Luangwa Park, lies a protected zone with six historical tribal areas of different sizes each ruled by a chief and each tribe has a… Read more »

It is night and I am lying in my bed under a mosquitos net in a large tent at my camp near the South Luangwa Park listening to the sounds… Read more »

I am on my bed, a thin mattress on a woven mat on a packed earth floor, in a small round thatched hut with conical thatched roof, in the Kawaza… Read more »

Today we met with the people of the “People’s Process for Homeless and Poverty” in their compound of George in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia.  George was settled many years… Read more »

I did not come here for the animals but now that I am here in Chobe National Park in Botswana, in an open vehicle, moving through parades of elephants, journeys… Read more »

We are traveling by van through a semi-arid bush landscape from Zambia to Botswana, with mainly barren trees, some with green and gold leaves ready to fall on the already… Read more »

The most beautiful cities in the world seem to share some common characteristics:  mountains sloping down toward natural water, ocean or harbor:  Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, Vancouver, Hong Kong,… Read more »