From the travel diaries.
Madikwe Game Reserve on the border of Botswana, Wednesday, I-have-no-idea-of-the-time.
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From the travel diaries.
Madikwe Game Reserve on the border of Botswana, Wednesday, I-have-no-idea-of-the-time.

Time feels as if it stands still in Madikwe.

I am looking out over a deck past a waterhole with zebras and elephants aplenty. The sound of unfamiliar birdsong, sharper and more high pitched than the French chansons I am accustomed to, punctuates the stillness.

If heaven is in the bush, I have arrived.

The serenity, the peace and the tranquillity are deceptive; life is far from placid in the surrounding bush lands. Put a foot wrong and there are a myriad of serious complications waiting.
It’s deceptive under the African skies; I like to describe it as docile with a dose of danger.

We started our journey in a small “commuter” airport in Johannesburg.
Have I ever said to you I don’t believe in coincidence" Generally I don’t.
Here we are in the terminal, the terminal where time stood still. A plane has landed and as the passengers disembark and make their way inside I hear a voice, a familiar voice. A voice that could only belong to my friend Serena, (you met her here) a woman with a melodic voice that is quite captivating. I stood up, looked around and there she was in all her gorgeous glory fresh from safari. She h...