2002-12-15 04:00:00 PDT Okavango Delta, Botswana-- 'The best thing for the inside of a man is the outside of a horse." -- Lord Palmerston, 1784-1865 . "Petit galop!" John Sobey shouts, and we're off.

This riding skill, required by Okavango Horse Safaris to join their horseback tours through Botswana's Okavango Delta, gave me pause. I'd spent thousands of hours in the saddle since childhood, but ...

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The lions fled across the delta, and our Land Cruiser followed. “They’re not far from here,” whispered our safari guide Dave Luck as he listened, smelled and looked for signs of big cats in the early ...

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My first safari in Botswana changed everything for me. I still remember gliding through the Okavango Delta in a mokoro (a traditional canoe) at sunrise: the hush of water, the call of a distant fish ...

I am a freelance writer and live in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya on the shores of Lake Naivasha. I grew up in South Africa and have had the privilege of travelling extensively in sub–Saharan Africa.