We have been hiking at a steady pace through montane forest for nearly an hour. Even with my jacket off it is cool at this altitude. Whenever we pause, the rasping calls of black-billed turacos echo from deep in the trees. I raise my binoculars and search for one of ...
Last December Dave led a safari to a new destination for us – Odzala-Kokoua National Park, situated in a remote corner of a country on the west side of Africa - the Republic of Congo (often abbreviated to ROC). There are two Congos. The ROC has a longstanding stable government, ...
The Engs family from California asked us where we recommend for their fourth safari with us, this time over Christmas. They loved their safari in Zimbabwe, but Christmas is not the best time to visit the Miombo/Mopane belt (northern South Africa, southern Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe). It is however, an ...
Uganda is not a big cat destination, and becomes a place we often visit to track the rare mountain gorillas. This is a fantastic experience but, whenever I am in a country, I have a yearning to see more of it. In January I was guiding a safari there tracking ...
Gillian and I had been to Uganda before to see the rare mountain gorilla, and this time we decided to travel there to see chimpanzees. Our first chimp track was at Kibale national park near Fort Portal. Here the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) have habituated three chimpanzee communities to the ...
The shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) is a somewhat enigmatic large stork-like bird that is found in swamps between Sudan and Zambia in Africa. While the Ancient Egyptians were familiar with this bird, it was not known to Europeans until the 19th Century. Because it lives in such inaccessible and remote swamps, ...
