Hubers go Africa
Travelling in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Invited to Home
An impressive event nearby Shametu: We spent half a day with the family of a Shametu employee. Grandma (real 21st century grandma with a mobile phone around her neck) taught us to prepare a full meal on the basis of Mahango (a very common type of millet), Mangetti nuts (from the mongongo tree) and some…
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Caprivi
Economists call it the fact of diminishing marginal Utility or Gossen’s First Law that makes us feel we have been long enough in Botswana now. Therefore we leave Savute northbound towards Kasane and re-enter Namibia at Ngoma Bridge border post. This “pad” had been a big adventure when we drove it three years ago in…
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Everything but cats
Enough cats? At Savute Elephant Lodge and during our game drives to Chobe Park there have been new impressions nearly every minute. SD cards little by little are reaching a memory overflow. So does my brain. Whom did I meat when, which occurence did me impress where? At Chobe only elephants did not meat our…
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Mama Lion
Dedicated to all mothers and mothers-to-be among my followers. Just two days after we nearly clashed with a 15 minutes old giraffe we found three lion babies. Honestly speaking it was our guide who found them. I might have passed by the hiding-place ten times without noticing that there is a lioness with her newborns.…
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Lion Kill
Lions are very social compared to other cats. However it is rare to find a pride sitting together. But for us it really is the year of the cats. No longer as beautiful as the two young males (cf previous post) here is the 14 years old boss of another pride. He survived (and won)…
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Lions: Two strong and beautiful brothers
Brothers, 6 and 7 years old, the one with a black, the other with a blonde lion’s mane. They belong to the same pride and seem to be smart fighters as you see no single injury on their fell. The black one is the boss which means that all cubs of the pride are his…
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Son Leopard
Does the son look like his mother? For us, yes. However each leopard has its very specific pattern – like we have individual fingerprints. And for our guide they have a very different facial expression. Clearly recognizable, isn’t it? Mother and Son meet rarely as leopards are solitary hunters. These both became film stars recently:…
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Mother Leopard
Mother Leopard relaxing on a tree (would you see her in the first picture?) and then taking her afternoon walk. With so many newborns dinner seems not to be a problem for her. Die ältere (Mutter-) Leopardin hängt ganz lässig im Baum (würdet Ihr sie überhaupt sehen im Vorbeifahren?) und startet dann ihren Abendspaziergang im Wissen,…
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Savute (Camp / Elephant Lodge)
Savute Camp. Famous all over southern Africa as elephants have always been regular visitors to the camp. As the water installation had to be repaired with the same regularity (elephants learned that there is wonderful fresh water behind this thing that humans call shower) now the ablution block looks like a fort. The Savute River…
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Our way to Chobe Park
Goodbye to the only inland delta of its kind in the world. Welcome to breathtaking Chobe Park. Tschüss und Servus zum einzigen Binnendelta dieser Art. Hallo und Hi zum atemberaubenden Chobe Park. Many stops on the way to Chobe. Not just to watch animals … Auf dem Weg zum Chobe (auf der Karte rechts oben)…