Ever wonder why we dont hear much about Zambia here???

fourfive8 said:

A few remembrances for those who have been there and a glimpse for whose who haven't

Baboons, big croc and eles on the Luangwa near Chanjuzi. Don't fall into the river!

Building a vehicle bridge, sans power tools, across a slough between Chanjuzi and Fly Camp.

Massive baobab in Nyaminga.

Stuck at crossing northwest of Chipata.

Croc cage at Chanjuzi built after croc grabbed Felix. (Felix survived and had a huge smile every time I ran into him around camp)

Lioness in the long grass (with young a couple hundred yards away)- look out/keep distance! and the same true for a rank and extremely dangerous old cow ele named Charlene.... in that same general area!

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postoak said:

$6000 for a free range roan doesn’t sound bad.

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Hank2211 said:

Benin has free range roan which is pretty reasonable. If memory serves (and it can fail!) I paid a trophy fee of about 1500 Euros two or three years ago. Day rates were about $12,900 for a 12 day safari, so all in less than $15K for the whole thing. If that still sounds expensive, don't forget I added a lot more animals - to name just two - the buffalo (western savannah) cost $1000 and the hippo $2675. As you keep adding animals, it just keeps getting better . . .

This is not to say anything negative about Zamiba - I hope to hunt there one day soon, and see if @spike.t is really as much as a curmudgeon as I am. My guess is that as you add animals in Zambia, the overall cost becomes much more comparable . . .

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fourfive8 said:

steve ahrenberg-
Ah ha- you indeed were there! I was in Abie duPlooy's overloaded cruiser with Abie at the wheel... and survived the trip!! We left Lusaka about 4 AM- it was pitch black. We almost head-on'd a broken down truck in the left lane on the black top maybe 10 miles outside Lusaka. Then nearly wiped out a bicycle running with no lights and no reflectors loaded with charcoal on that same more or less straight stretch of road, were on two wheels more than once on the switch backs leading down to the upper bridge crossing then got stuck in a river crossing on a two track, "short cut" road in the cane fields a ways inland after turning northwest from the Malawi border crossing near Chipata. Didn't break a spring- only a front shock bracket. Looking back on that whole trip- wouldn't trade it for the world!

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