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On Safari in the Kalahari |
| Section: LIFE / ADVENTURE |
| Author: Deirdre Mcquillan |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2000 |
| Size: 2,009 Words, 12,008 Characters |
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An African safari--the word is Swahili for journey--is an adventure that plays with the emotions in ways that have to be experienced to be properly understood. On a seven-day trip to the Kalahari desert in Botswana, our little group was to discover the joys of seeing animals in the wild for the first time, the rich treasures of the bush, and what one writer described as the "visceral thump," that link between humans and lions that "is not terror, not love, but not quite divorced from either." There were moments of trepidation, of exhilaration, fear, and sheer delight.
Old-fashioned safaris were a different proposition. "There are two classes of people who go after lions--the mugs and those who come back with the trophy," wrote Safari Sam (alias Gordon Makepeace), a popular chronicler of...
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...atched without speaking as they bumped and splashed and rolled and played, silhouetted against the night sky. Then, as slowly and silently as they had come, they made their way out of the water, one after the other, disappearing into the darkness. That dinner with the elephants was a humbling, moving experience for us all and as an image of Africa was one that will live forever in the memory.
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