One of the highlights of my life was spending four days of 1989 in a canoe on the Zambezi River with my son. The Zambezi Valley, one of the last unspoiled wild life areas in the world, is closed for all but four months of the year because of the heatand humidity. Access in winter is strictly controlled and the guides undergo a rigorous training. We got really close to buffalo and elephant both in the water and on the land. (One evening, a small herd of elephants walked silently through our campsitewhile we were sitting around the fire). The crocodiles were some of the largest imaginable, the bird life was spectacular, and we had one alarmingly close encounter with a hippo.
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