South Africa, Zimbabwe, & Botswana Africa Safari Review: Karongwe Game Reserve, Okavango Delta, Victoria Falls, Wildlife

The Karongwe Reserve was exceptional.  The lodging and staff cannot be topped.  Seeing the coalition of cheetahs was the highlight for me.  But it was also great to sit on the porch and see giraffes, impala, nyala and a rhino walk by.  
The beauty of the Okavango Delta was another highlight.  It was a very unique moment in time to do this trip.  Being some of the first guests to return after the shut down allowed us to see these animals as wild as they’ll probably ever be.  They were no longer habituated to vehicles and some were born after the parks closed, so possibly had never seen a human before. 

Every time that I go to Africa, I know I will love seeing the wild animals.  But I am always most profoundly impacted by the stories from the people I meet.  Mark Twain was absolutely correct when he wrote “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”