I don’t think I’ve been to a wilderness in Africa comparable to the Okavango Delta. This is a place where humans are so rare, the animals don’t know how to handle them. Jeeps are open bare not next to leopards, but, more importantly, next to baboons. Try that in South Africa where even the bins are […]
Birdwatching in the Okavango Delta
“I don’t like birds!” Siân was looking at me with a ‘there-I-said-it’ expression of annoyance. “Ever since I was young and saw that Hitchcock movie, birds give me the creeps,” she continued. Siân’s husband tried to laugh things off with a ‘That was fiction, dear’, but even he could not thaw the atmosphere. I was […]