While our trip plans for this year are on hold (we cancelled China and are rethinking Panama rainforest) our memories of past adventures are vivid. These photos are from a trip three years ago to Southern Africa. We visited South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. To get there we also spent four days in Brussels and four days in Amsterdam (to cut up the 25 hour flight from San Francisco to Johannesburg and back).
What we enjoyed most was having expert guides who took us to see the animals without diturbing them. Our only shots were fired by Canon Cameras. Nothing was injured. (Well, I got tackled and sucker punched by a baboon. It only hurt my pride.)
We learned a good deal about how humankind can help preserve those animals at risk. We got close up to primates, elephants, lions, cheetahs, snakes and the larger grazing animals. In all, we remembered that wild animals can be dangerous, but not as dangerous as humans on the hunt.
We discovered a good deal about ourselves and about one another. My grandson left the U.S. 12 years old and came back more mature. I left an old man and came back more youthful.
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