I first visited the Kafue National Park in 2019. Coming from the Luangwa Valley, which is always reported to be Zambia's best wildlife destination, I was prepared to be underwhelmed by Zambia's largest park. I was not just pleasantly surprised, but in fact blown away [...]
Zambia has much to offer visitors at any time of the year. But the dry season months -- from May to October -- give the most opportunities to access the rich wildlife areas that draw most of the tourism interest in the country. I was [...]
As with so many of my 2022 trips, my safari with Alex, Jean and Steve was postponed from 2020. By the time we met at Track & Trail River Camp in early June 2022, we had traded so many emails that it felt like we [...]
It give me great pleasure to share links to my guests' images and videos from the Botswana safari that I led in May 2022. While I always make sure that my safaris are a wildlife experience first and foremost, I work hard to get the [...]
The Luangwa Valley is a special place to visit at any time of the year. I love the early dry season months of April, May and June for the clear light, cool mornings and the active animals which do not have to take shelter from [...]
I just returned from leading a 12-night adventure through 3 camps in the Okavango Delta with a group of repeat guests from the USA. It's a familiar story, but this trip had been planned in 2018 for 2020, then been postponed twice and finally taken [...]
I was walking with my family yesterday and I heard an aggressive, hissing, rattling noise in the bush just off the path that we were using. I stopped and quickly found a large pompilid wasp dragging a huge baboon spider carcass. The wasp had hissed [...]
It was a huge thrill and a privilege to be part of an operation to recover a black rhino called Chilunda and return him to the North Luangwa National Park. Over more than a decade living in Zambia, documenting this memorable day is a massive [...]
It is a time of dramatic seasonal change in Luangwa; the days are shortening, the evenings are cooling and there is a freshness in the air. I start to think about dry season, and make ill-advised comments like "it feels cooler today; maybe the rains [...]
It's been a long time coming, but it looks like we will have a safari season this year! I can't express my excitement about this, and also my gratitude to all my guests who have stuck with me over the last 2 years while we've [...]
