ANIMAL KINGDOMS Safari drives are great. But when you see elephants from the main road on the way from A
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here are many reasons for going on an expedition. There’s the landscapes and environments you’ll see, the people you’ll meet, the sheer joy of the road… all of them go together to make overland travel one of the best things you can ever do. Most of all, though, when your travels take you into the world’s wild places, you’re sharing them with the
wild animals who live there. And this is never more evident than it is in Africa. Now, it would be very easy to make a joke here about Nairobi. While making our travel plans, we heard endless dire warnings about the city people refer to as ‘Nairobbery.’ If you’re taking the classic route through Africa, you’ll almost certainly fetch up here at some stage, so you’ll hear the
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