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Archives for October 2018

Drinks all round – a thousand seriously big ones…

29 October 2018 by Simon Barnes 2 Comments

Sacred Combe Safari III Day 5 We have all heard a good deal about the loss of biodiversity: but as I keep saying, we are also and crucially losing bioabundance. And though a good sighting of some rare and lovely thing does our hearts good, a glorious sight of biological plenty has the same profound… [Read More]

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Unexpected guests drop in for drinks in the Luangwa Valley…

26 October 2018 by Simon Barnes 4 Comments

Sacred Combe Safari III Day 4 And now we walk. We won’t see a vehicle for the next five days.  Walking – walking towards camp — we stopped for tea. As we did so, three elephants, two females and a young male, walked towards us. So we shifted ground and started again. Tea tastes better… [Read More]

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I have a tail to tell about the Luangwa Valley…

22 October 2018 by Simon Barnes 2 Comments

Sacred Combe Safari III Day 3 There are moments very dear to the professional safari guide, occasions that showcase both knowledge and skill in the same dramatic moment: so that it seems that the guide himself had personally called the lovely beast into being. Moffat Mwanza was about to have just such a moment as… [Read More]

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Pushing on doggedly as far as the Luangwa River…

19 October 2018 by Simon Barnes 2 Comments

Sacred Combe Safari III Day 2 They arrived in darkness and dined in darkness, the sounds of the bush all around them, but no one had any idea what the damn place actually looked like. They were weary after 24 hours of aeroplanes followed by a two hour drive, and most of that in the… [Read More]

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And now for something thrilling about metatarsals…

17 October 2018 by Simon Barnes 3 Comments

Sacred Combe Safari III Day 1 Two rivers have flown through my adult life: the Liffey and the Luangwa. I mostly know the Liffey from obsessive rereading of Ulysses; I know the Luangwa from my obsessive need to return to the Luangwa Valley. If a book or a place is deep enough and rich enough… [Read More]

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How I spent my siesta in the Luangwa Valley with a couple of scrubbers…

15 October 2018 by Simon Barnes 4 Comments

Sacred Combe Safari III Day -1 I had arrived in the Luangwa Valley in Zambia the previous evening, and dined with my old friends Jess and Ade at Flatdogs Camp in great happiness. The following morning, I went into the park with a guide called Byron and had a fine morning: getting my eye to… [Read More]

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