African Hunting Gazette

Kariba, Crocs and the Caprivi

Editorial

But - you’re going to Kariba. You pass the first baobabs, and like in those childhood car trips we Zimbabweans made ‘down south’ to the coast, usually to Durban, taking seemingly forever til you get there. The horizon suddenly flattens into a distant blue, and there it is. But this time it’s not the sea at the coast, but one of the world’s greatest lakes – in

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