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MY GUIDE AND JOY

The waiting game

ADAM STEPHEN MESHALLU PROUD AFRICAN SAFARIS, TANZANIA

The plan for our 12-day trip was to track big cats as we followed the wildebeest migration through the Serengeti Plains. Adam's patience rewarded us with exquisite sightings: cheetah cubs sharing in a kill; lion cubs falling over one another in play; lions fighting over a kill, to name a few. Adam worked with Lemala Camps to pack three meals a day for us, enabling us to safari for 12 hours at a time. On our final morning, we loaded our bags into the jeep

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