Unique, amazing, unforgettable.

Watching a pride of 11 lions first resting and later on stalking a giraffe in the Hwange National Park, and then finding out from our guide that it was actually the famed Cecil’s pride. Listen to the story of Cecil, the lion shamefully poached at the park’s borders in 2015, was as exciting as finding his pride and descendants.

We were driving back to Somalisa Acacia Camp after the sundowner, happy and still excited for the lions sighting, when another vehicle of the camp informed us about another sighting. We quickly reached the spot, pointed our binoculars and here they are: two beautiful cheetah lying on a termite mound.

The colours, the water shades and the jagged shorelines of Lake Kariba seen from the air.

In case of encounters with wild animals: whatever you do, don’t run!

The fear of the darkness.

The baboon spider, better know as tarantula: a huge hairy and venomous spider that one night we found hiding in the cavity of a tree log.

Our private guide was Tommaso: thoughtful, knowledgeable and easy-going. It felt like we were traveling with a friend.

Sitting at night on our tent’s veranda and lighting up the bush with the torch in search of wild animals.

Somalisa Acacia Camp, mainly because of the incredible encounters with the elephants regularly moving through the camp and drinking from the swimming pool a few meters away from you.

Before we were a bit scared also because it was our first safari. After we were really happy and excited about the journey, and we are already missing Africa a lot.