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A Cheetah's smile
A Cheetah's smile
Have you ever seen cheetah up close, or patted it behind the ear, have you ever heard it pur, or see on fed meat. If so, well you haven't seen anything until you have seen a cheetah's smile.
In the north west of Namibia, there is a family who live on a farm. And on that farm, they have raised three beautiful cheetah's that they rescued as cubs, after a hunting expedition. And from ...
Visit to Himba Village
... tell, there was no problem with taking pictures.
A little information about the Himba people. They are one of the last semi-nomadic desert-dwelling groups in Africa. The women still retained their traditional appearance. Naked except for an animal skin skirt or wrap and ...
Feeding cheetahs
... at the Halali campsite, where I had the bizarre experience of swimming in the pool whilst a thunderstorm (complete with rain, thunder and lightning) passed over us - my body was warm in the water, but my head chilled by the rain. That night we went to the Moringa watering hole in the hope of seeing wildlife come to drink, but as the floodlight was not working we could see nothing.
Fri 17th We drove to ...
Bush Camp
... that we would have hot water, it would just take "a while." A while was 5 minutes.
Very chilly mornings and beautiful afternoons - a few hot ones. Those seemed to be the days that John would take us on our "marches" as I fondly called them. We would see lots and lots of elephant dung - a herd of six had been seen the day before we arrived and a lone bull was thought to ...
Cats everwhere
Another short entry due to my lack of notes and memory of the day's events.
But we arrived here and were taken in to get close to the tame cheetahs who were all pretty unfazed by us.
After putting up our tents for the evening we were then ...