This page is a collection of photos that didn’t really fit into the other pages.
You can see the vehicles we used for game drives. These were usually at 7 am to about noon and again about 5 pm until, or after, dark. There was a coffee break mid morning and a “sundowner” stop about sunset. Occasionally the sundowner stop actually was cocktail time before dinner back in camp. Drives were not prescribed routes. The two vehicles always went off in different routes but had radio communications in case of an exciting find. Consequently, people in the different vehicles had different observation experiences.
Some non wildlife experiences were a visit to a women’s basket weaving coop and home of one of the women, a local village visit and a primary school visit.
At the local market we had been on our way to a camp, our tour leader purchased fabric for each lady in our group to learn about a chitenge, a local garmet worn by native women. Our camp manager demonstrated how this garmet is worn and each lady practiced. Subsequently on our village visit, the ladies in our group out of courtesy to the local women, wore their chatengas.
For our village visit, we all contributed a small sum and our tour leader purchased supplies that he knew the village could use. The village folks were obviously appreciative of our gifts to them.
At our school visit, we all paired up with students for a brief time. We worked on study papers but soon found that the students were more interested in questioning us as to where we were from, what we eat, etc. The exchanges were fun and interesting. This school receives financial aid from Grand Circle Foundation, which is affiliated with the Grand Circle/Overseas Adventure Travel company.
