Travel changes the person. That much I already knew. In the following week I would explore the other side of the equation, that is, how the traveller can change the world. On a safari in Botswana, I realised that travelling to these endangered places is what will save them in the end.
The Virunga Mountain Range has suffered at the hands of both man and nature – deforestation, poaching, and volcanic erosion have left the area a shadow of its former self, stripping the primates of their habitat and lifeline.
I was brought up around animals, and on my family vacations in Australia we would see crocodiles and other wild animals. I’ve always had this passion. After our honeymoon, we got the bug. Africa just got my soul.
Charles van Rensburg lives in the heart of southern Africa and has immersed himself in a career in conservation, wildlife, and safari excursions.
Hong Kong-raised Ben Simpson ventured to Africa as a teen and after a few short years, returned permanently. Having obtained a pilot’s license in Florida in the years between, Simpson’s dreams of a life less ordinary persisted,
An endless desert with majestic, conical structures rising from a sea of sand. Thinking of Egypt? Think again.
I’m with my guide, Lloyd Camp, on the trail of the elusive black rhino in one of the few truly wild places left in the world. “The worst thing we could do is to run away from an animal, we’ll be finished”, Lloyd warns me
