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(Dana) Two elephants trying to shake palm nuts out of the tree next to the boys’ tent at our last camp. Hippos feeding, snorting and laughing right outside the girls’ cabin last night. Lioness prints on the sandy path between our tent and breakfast this morning. Our guide doing a 360-degree sweep of each area […]

(Reis) My stomach lurches as if being tugged, as the rancid smell of Fried Mopane Worms reaches my nose. You may think “Why does he have a Mopane Worm?” Well if you really want to know, I was about to eat one. We pulled up to the cattle post and the stench of cow and […]

(Alex) There is 2 % of fresh water on the planet. Out of that, 69% is ice. 30% is ground water and 1% of that is available to us in rivers, lakes, ponds and marshes. Only 8% of the 1% of the available fresh water is used for all different kinds of domestic use. Mostly […]

(Andrew) Adrenaline pumped through my veins hearing the baboons’ alarm calls followed by zebras’. Many predators were the suspects of the crime; lions, a leopard and the rare chance of wild dogs. A lion was guilty of the noise. A single, solitary, hungry lioness was sulking around failing to catch prey. She had a big, […]

South Africa is a land struggling with hangovers. Apartheid and racism ripped the country apart just a few decades ago, now, as Mandela’s infectious optimism may be less present, South Africans are left to keep the flames of reconciliation and progress alive. Likewise, the World Cup was a source of pride and unification, but now […]

August 18 — We spent the morning learning about and interacting with cheetahs at the Tenikwa Cheetah Sanctuary near Tsitsikammi Park in South Africa. The kid’s reactions are below: (Reis) Three things that come to mind when you think of cheetahs are Speed, Spots, and Super Predator. But what people don’t know is it’s not […]

(Greg) There are less than 2,000 black rhinos left on the planet. At a remote camp in Northwest Namibia – just south of the Angolan border – we had the rare chance to track and find one. The presence of a black rhino this far north was a surprise to the local staff as their […]

(Dana) The village of Okangombezemba. Northwest Namibia. Outside of Purros, aka the middle of nowhere in this vast, sparsely populated country. Approximately 12,000 Himba people live in Namibia. Twenty years ago, 11,000 of those 12,000 lived traditionally — a nomadic, pre-written-history existence. Today, only 1,000 live this way. When we first arrive at the village, […]

(Andrew) Boom! The engine roared to life. ATVing in the Namib Desert. Dad and I were in the same ATV, zooming out of Serra Cafema. Serra Cafema is a little desert oasis in, literally, the middle of nowhere. The camp is on the Kunene River which marks the border of Namibia and Angola. If you […]