Pure Magic

It's nearly impossible to describe the experience of being on safari. All of your senses are engaged and heightened, because you are seeing so many amazing and unusual animals in their natural surroundings; feeling the cool stillness of the air at dawn; hearing all of the sounds of the outdoors: insects, exotic birds and countless animals I couldn't possibly name; and seeing up-close the fine details of the trees, vegetation, water, flowers of such a vast and unique landscape.


We would be driving along and suddenly someone would point and say "Look! Over there!" The truck would stop and a hush would fall over the group. And in pure silence, we would sit in awe of whatever majestic creature we were fortunate enough to have cross our path. 







Sometimes the animals would acknowledge us and sometimes they wouldn't, but they rarely approached or ran away.

Every part of being on safari was so full of anticipation and possibility. That has to be one of my favorite parts of that experience. The way it made us all little kids again - reveling in the pure magic and wonder of it all.