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FOUR BRILLIANT BIRDERS, ONE PROFICIENT

PHOTOGRAPHER & ME – PART TWO

Safaris in Zambia and Rwanda: August 22 to September 5, 2017

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INTRODUCTION

Four of us were already acquainted from previous trips and knew we

would enjoy being with one another again, especially since Mark was

the Africa Easy Representative and our leader. But what a wonderful

surprise when we met Laurence and Jim, South Africans who had been
friends for years and were also well acquainted with Mark and Mayumi.

We all just "clicked" almost at once. As soon as we realized that all of us

had undertaken this trip with the same goals in mind, we knew this

combo would be a complete success. We all wanted to see as much

wildlife & birdlife as possible and we all had the patience it takes to get
good sightings, experience behaviors, take good photos and name

every bird we saw and heard with precision. Zambia and Rwanda were

new countries for 4 of us and places visited long ago for the others, so

no one could have been more eager than we were to begin our

explorations!

RWANDA

Rwanda is a small, landlocked Central African country bordered by

Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Claiming 26,338 square miles of territory, it is slightly smaller than our

state of Maryland. Rwanda has a green and mountainous landscape

composed mostly of grassy uplands and verdant hills. A temperate