Have you ever wondered what it is like to be on the 'other' side on safari and part of the guiding team as opposed to being a client? Kalunga, as a Sunway guide, writes about his experiences on tour and what it means to be a guide when starting off on each new safari...

As you may have learned from his bio on 'Our Guides', he loves guiding for Sunway because he gets to see different countries and he loves sharing this with the clients that join him. When home in Zambia, Kalunga plays in his local football team and supports Arsenal and his national team, the Chipolopo's who recently won the Africa Cup of Nations.

"At the start of each new departure, I always find myself wondering: “What is the next group like?” So off I go to the airport to do the 'meet and greet' and look forward to meeting the next group that is to become my responsibility for the next few weeks..."

Coming to Africa is a dream for lots of people, but for many people that dream does come true. The question Carina has for you is : What do you want to see on your African dream safari?
There are a lot of answers to that question and 1 country that comes to mind is Botswana! I can give you a whole list of things that I want to see more than once as I have been there many times but these things never stop to amaze me.

After missing out on last year’s Pre BTTE Fam trip I (Dirk) was very excited to hear I would be leading the agents into Botswana for 4 days pre BTTE (Botswana Travel & Tourism Expo) that is held in Kasane Botswana. I arrived a day before to sort out all the shopping for the 2 days that I would have to cook in the Okavango Delta and Moremi Game reserve. On the day of the start of the trip I was taken into the Delta by Mokoro to set up camp (accommodated style) before the agents and Bruce arrived. Returning to the poling station I awaited the arrival of the agent that where flying in by helicopter. After the 3rd flight in we all set off in our mokoros to the chosen island with our camp already set up.

Annika Lipp recently returned from a Botswana Wildside BT14 camping tour, which took them through the wildlife paradise of the Okavango Delta, Moremi Game Reserve, Savuti and Chobe National Park.
Due to the fact that they were 'camping wild' in all of the mentioned places, they got to experience an abundance of wildlife very close and had very high chances of a lot of special sightings. Besides breathtaking sightings such as a female leopard and her cub in Moremi, Hyena in their camp and a pride of lion with cubs in Savuti, their most special sighting was the rare African Wild Dog...