Africa is home to the “Cradle of Humanity,” amazing wildlife, magnificent mountains and lakes, a thousand unique cultures, and warm and friendly people. Discover an African adventure here.
“After about an hour of hiking and John communicating regularly with the trackers by radio, he pointed to a pile of excrement on the gourd. He looked up at me, told me what we were staring at, and said, “Now I guarantee that you will see mountain gorillas!” My heart was beating fast from the hiking but it skipped a beat at those words.”
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“We then walked through the muddy ground to visit the concealed 30 meter long track made by our human ancestors so long ago. My guide was unimpressed — honestly there is not much to see but I was moved to be standing in a place occupied by hominids for over three million years. I was in the Great Rift Valley of Africa, in the Cradle of Humanity.”
View More[Our guide] spoke like this: “Zebras and wildebeests are friends.” “The enemy of the baboon is the lion.” Animals did not make sounds. Instead they had “voices.” He told us which conducted “revenge attacks” and why. Trees did not have habitats, they had “rules for living” Elephants — intelligent, social, and so improbable — were wild dangerous but would “respect” our vehicle. I hung on each bit of safari poetry.
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