Your safari will be the most exciting and rewarding travel experience of your life. "Going on safari" conjures up visions of a train of porters led by an intrepid hunter, or of elaborately appointed camps established in the wilder areas of the country. Not any longer! In Swahili, the word "safari" means journey. Your journey is by modern safari land cruisers, safari mini-vans and open land rovers for superb game viewing and photographic opportunities.

Vast areas of the many wildlife countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been set aside as national parks, game reserves and sanctuaries, where an infinite variety of wildlife can be seen, studied and photographed in its natural habitat. While there are some remote regions where you can participate in night game drives, for the most part you will do your major game viewing in the early morning and late afternoons, the best time of the day to see and photograph the animals. In whatever wildlife region you travel to, you'll find yourself in the middle of the most spectacular scenery imaginable--an incredible montage of animal and birdlife passing continuously before your eyes.

You'll feel the thrill of being part of the greatness of nature. Being able to photograph a towering giraffe silhouetted against an orange sky. Witnessing a horizon dotted with thousands of wildebeest, cape buffalo and zebra while marveling at the immeasurable sweep of the Masai Mara in Kenya; the towering snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro rising majestically above the plains in Tanzania; the quiet but heavily populated wildlife regions of the Okavango Delta in Botswana; gaze in awe at the number of hippo and crocodile that crowd most rivers in the wildlife regions of Malawi and Zambia's Luangwa Valley; see the diversity of wildlife as it meanders through much of the desolate regions of Etosha in Namibia; viewing herds of elephants in some of Zimbabwe's game parks that will stagger even the most experienced safari traveler. Listen to the sounds of Africa: a lion roaring at dusk, an elephant trumpeting at dawn. Take in the tranquil solitude of an African night, as you gaze in awe at millions of stars flickering brightly in an ink-black sky.

Come to Africa. It is an experience that will stay with you a lifetime. It will capture your imagination and your heart and rekindle the adventurous spirit that lives in us all.