It is still dark when you wake, and outside your tent something moves. The coffee is ready, your guide packed the lunch boxes an hour ago, and as the sky turns orange you drive out of camp into the quiet. The Serengeti wakes up around you, and there is not another vehicle in sight.
Then your guide stops. He points, and in the long grass you see nothing at all, until a lioness lifts her head. The roof is open, the engine is off, and all you can hear is the wind. Ngomi is a zoologist and has been driving safaris for thirty years, and that is how we look at guides. They tell you more than what you are looking at. They tell you why a pride is held together by the females, and how you find what does not want to be found.
In the evening you drive back to camp, dusty and quiet from what you saw. The fire is lit, dinner is waiting, and as you fall asleep you hear hyenas somewhere out in the dark. No rushing, no crowds, alone on the world for a while.
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