Since Mana Pools is by far Jens his favorite park and since he stayed there almost three months last year (read here part one, two and three), we decided to have a look right after rainy season. What a difference! Actually in the end it turned out to be still quite in the rainy season, since we even got rain while we were there as well. It made the roads (and everything) really muddy, but the sunsets and the views beautiful dramatic.
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This year I was in Mana with a mission. I wanted to stay for a longer time and see how everything would evolve with the start of the rainy season. It got really very hot, although it already started raining every once in a while the end of November. On some of the pictures here in November you can already see some green starting to come out. But on these ones you clearly do!
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After the sad happening with the wild dog (see here) I had to leave the park since you’re only allowed into Zimbabwe for 30 days on a normal tourist visa. Not a disaster, since I also had to resupply. I was out of… well almost everything! So off to Lusaka in Zambia. I went for shopping, to the workshop for some minor things and I even got invited by a friend to stay at his place. Always much nicer this way then staying somewhere in your own.
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Where do you start when so many things happened? Mana Pools showed his greatness again this season and I think you’ll get it when you simply look at some pictures since they don’t need much explanation at all… Sometimes an image says more than a thousand words. The beauty of photography… Enjoy! Continue reading →
After an amazing time in Botswana (see here), I continued to my favorite park of the bunch, Mana Pools. I’ll keep this blogpost very short since the images really speak for themselves. There were so many great moments, Continue reading →
Von Botswana fuhr ich relativ schnell über Harare nach Mana Pools NP. Schon bei der Fahrt in den Park hingen noch dicke Wolken über dem Tal und auch schon bei der Fahrt von Harare weg musste ich durch einige kräftige Regenschauer fahren. Nicht die besten Vorzeichen, um in einen Park zu fahren, der in der Regenzeit für mehrere Monate schließt…
Alles hat ein Ende, nur die Wurst hat zwei… nach diesem Motto will ich den letzten Blog auch kurz fassen.
Nach einen schönen Sommer in Deutschland bin ich wieder auf Foto-Safari im südlichen Afrika. Von Johannesburg ging es schnell nach Maun/Botswana, wo ich Dee und Nick traf. Mit Nick werde ich in den nächsten Wochen unterwegs sein.