Angola Part 1 – April 2025 I’d long harbored an interest in Angola, mostly from sitting in camp Syncro on the south bank of the Cunene River in Namibia, looking across the water at Angola’s looming mountains on the opposite bank. This pull, a few stories from friends, and Paul Theroux’s The Last Train from Zona…
NB: Our visit to Chitake was in August 2022 – this blost post is just getting posted very late! Chitake Springs is within Mana Pools National Park, but it is an entirely different experience than the riverfront, where most visitors spend their time. The Chitake area is dry miombo woodland, comprised primarily of jesse bush…
Note: this post is two years late! Our visit was August 2022, but I had written about 80% of this shortly after our visit and I occasionally get some friendly nudges to finish the blog. Here goes… Today we’d finally go to Mana Pools, one of the most famous parks in Africa. From Warthogs campsite…
And we take the Kariba Ferry Aug 10 – 13th, 2022 On our way into Matusadona National Park we pulled off the road for a break. As we lunched, we were also lunched upon by tsetse flies, a reminder that we were back in the tsetse belt. This is an unpleasant but invigorating experience that…
