by Kate Gentry | Jan 2, 2026
Botswana is not as well known as a safari destination in the USA, but it is a terrific place to go on safari. They are very conservation oriented and manage to keep wildlife viewing crowding to a minimum. This is a key difference between Botswana safaris and ones you...
by Kate Gentry | Dec 29, 2025
I had been to Victoria Falls on the Zimbabwe side 11 years ago with Richard and Rin after we visited Rick studying in Cape Town, South Africa for a semester. Victoria Falls is an amazingly wonderful site to behold and I was excited to share it with Mike and see it...
by Kate Gentry | Dec 7, 2025
In order to see more of the country and do some activities that weren’t centered around animals, we selected other areas to see. One place was Murchinson Falls where the most powerful waterfall in the world is (as defined by most concentrated force of water through...
by Kate Gentry | Dec 7, 2025
We were eager to get to Uganda after the conditions in Ethiopia, dreaming about food we would like and how we could get around Uganda on our own. The main reason for coming to Uganda was to do gorilla tracking in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. We decided to splurge...
by Kate Gentry | Dec 5, 2025
We did a 13-day tour of mostly northern Ethiopia, including the area called Tigray which has warnings against tourists going there. I can’t imagine touring in Ethiopia without locals arranging things. The main language is Amharic and it doesn’t use a Latin...
