Back to Kaokoland: catching up with the elephants
October 19th 2006 For reasons that I’m not sure I’ll be able to convey to anyone who has never been to the big open spaces of Africa, I fell in love with Kaokoland during my work on the desert-dwelling elephant project there in August. Truly, to paraphrase, I can "never shake the ancient dust of Africa off" my boots.
It’s not a kind environment. The adage “if you don’t like dust, don’t go to Kaokolan
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