I love the word journey. It suggest so much more than a trip, tour, travel or visit. Each place I visit is a new journey, a new opportunity to explore and learn something about the people who live there, their language, culture and way of life, etc. Because journey is such a strong word, I knew that it had to be part of my blog name, InsideJourneys. And when I saw...

There are more than 30,000 elephants in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe so it’s not a matter of whether you’ll see a few elephants when you go game watching, but when. We first saw this mother’s baby at the side of the road and stopped to take it’s photo when we heard the unmistakable sound of an elephant on our right. When I turned round, I noticed her ears were fully...

I took these photos last year in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park. The experience of watching wildlife in their natural habitat was life changing. I knew that animals are intelligent, compassionate and caring but watching them interacting with each other or with other species and taking care of their young was heartwarming. Zebras are incredibly beautiful up close. And almost every time we saw them, impalas were not far away. Despite...

I haven’t seen the video and I don’t plan to. But I’m outraged that Go Daddy‘s Bob Parsons even thought of creating one glorifying his recent shooting of an elephant in Zimbabwe. The arguments he and others like him use to justify this act are old and well worn. Ditto the arguments the Zimbabwean officials use. There was so much hope, so much promise in the newly independent Zimbabwe. Instead,...

When I told my 80 year-old aunt that I was going to Cape Town, she replied excitedly, “I’ve always wanted to see Table Mountain but never made it. Please kiss the mountain for me!” After hearing that, if Table Mountain had not been on my list, it soon would be. We arrived in Cape Town on a Thursday night, after three amazing days watching game in Hwange National Park and...

The day before we left Makalolo Plains was bittersweet. The team had made us feel very welcome and we knew we had made friends. On top of that, we had spent many hours watching animals at close range, and that was better than the best episode of a nature program. Towards the end of our morning drive, Godfrey spotted this hippo that appeared to sleeping at the edge of a...

When our travel agent told my friends and me that she’d booked us for two days in Victoria Falls, we balked. None of us was convinced we’d need that length of time to look at water, no matter how spectacular it was. Boy, were we wrong! We arrived in Vic Falls on a beautiful, sunny Sunday afternoon after a pleasant trip from Johannesburg. As we left the arrivals lounge, we...