Kategorie: 2018
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Breaking & shocking news
Even though we are meanwhile in Zambia, we are shocked by breaking news from Zimbabwe: A German woman was trampled to death by an elephant in Zimbabwe last Wednesday. In Mana Pools – exactly at the place we had left three days before. And yes, the elephants are very often very close there. You don’t…
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Zambia / Sambia
An afternoon at the pool (and a wifi connection) gives me the chance to share a bit of my (newly acquired) knowledge:
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Fighting malnutrition / Kampf der Fehlernährung
One of the 50 or so projects that the Merck Family Foundation has supported since its inception is a short detour on our way and definitely worth a visit: The Irish volunteer organization i4Life (amongst them: our pharma head in Ireland) is fighting malnutrition of children in a socially deprived area of Lusaka: Linda compound, a…
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Unplanned stopover
We have left Lusaka for the northeast. Our thanks go to the EU, who financed restauration of the infamous „Great East Road“. Less good: Our refrigerator is broken, it works with an external power supply, but not with the 24 volts of the on-board batteries. So we removed it overnight and operated it outside. Asking…
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Living in a wilderness park
We are in the Luangwa Valley, more precisely in the South Luangwa National Park, the most famous animal sanctuary of Zambia. Again a „wilderness park“, without fences, visits of animals of all kinds not excluded. First, however, no animals, but an insight, how we live here. Wir sind im Luangwa-Tal, genauer im South Luangwa-Nationalpark, dem…
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Leopards / Leoparden
Would you stop below this tree? ….. Unser Suchbild: Würdet Ihr hier anhalten? A tree for cat lovers: A leopard mother with her about six months old boy (or girl?) lying in the tree together with her „kill“, an antelope. We passed it five times in the course of the day, just couldn’t get enough of…
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North Luangwa National Park
We decided to extend the adventure scale and drove to North Luangwa National Park – considered to be one of the last „True Wildernesses“ left in Africa. Originally, North Park was to be kept as a „scientific control“ habitat in order to monitor the impact of human activities in South Luangwa. However, in the ‘70s and…
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Buffalo Camp (1)
We spend five days in the wilderness of the North Park: In a community camp where the proceeds from the camp are used to invest in their village school. And at the infamous Buffalo Camp, whose founder was the first fighter against the poachers and who was given the privilege of building a lodge in the…
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Buffalo Camp (2)
The Buffalo Camp is only accessible in the dry season from June to October and is managed by an Irish globetrotter of our age: Mike was in the oil business, worked in the mining industry and caught snakes in South Africa. When he suddenly got a fever during our presence, Ernst could try his malaria…