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Walking safari stories
Why people walk in Africa, and the people and places that made the walking safari.
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Face It: Walking Safaris Are Just Really Cool
We have written plenty about safety, fitness and how to choose a camp. This one is different. This is about why walking in Africa is just really cool.
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Walking Safaris Take You Away from the Crowds
In some of Africa's best-known parks, the hardest thing to find at a sighting is space. On foot, space is the whole point.
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True Experiential Travel: Walking Safaris
Most travel lets you look at a place. A walking safari asks you to take part in it.
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Who Invented the Walking Safari?
Norman Carr in Zambia's Luangwa Valley or Ian Player in South Africa's iMfolozi? The documented history of how the African walking safari began.
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Kuyenda: Phil Berry's Walking Camp
Kuyenda means "to walk" in Nyanja, the local language. Fittingly, it was built by a man who had spent thirty years walking the valley before he put up a single hut.
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Chibembe and the Birth of the Commercial Walking Safari
The first commercial walking safari circuit began at a seasonal river crossing in Zambia's Luangwa Valley, and the historic ground around it is open to walkers again.
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A Walking Safari of Another Kind: When Elephants Walk Through the Lobby at Mfuwe Lodge
At the end of each dry season, a family of elephants walks through the front door of a safari lodge in Zambia, on the way to a tree that was there first.