After nearly two decades of African safaris, I’ve learned some things. This is how I see Africa.
- It’s a place where you can drink too much whisky at night, and not feel it the next morning.
- It’s a place where you can get blood on your hands and feel no need to wash it off.
- It’s where you can forget there are things like televisions, air conditioners, and governments.
- It’s a place where you’ll discover your cowardice and courage, because every man has both.
- It’s a place where you might be trusted or shunned, and living up to the first is as hard as living with the latter.
- If you leave there, and don’t want to return, you can be assured it’s a place you do not belong. If you do belong, it will never release its grasp on you.
- A hunter’s business in Africa is killing, but the killing of time may take precedence. And African time is not modern time — it passes slowly, but in an instant.
- In a single day on an African safari, you can experience every emotion from love to hate, and from pride to prejudice. An African safari is about living life – all of it – to its fullest.
- Africa is a drug with unpredictable side effects. It’s best administered under the care of a skilled professional hunter.
- Africa will possibly make you frightened of what you have become, but more than likely it will make you something you need to be.
- Take what Africa gives you. If you try to force her, she will break your heart, your spirit, your soul, and maybe more.
