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A trip like this is going to cost pounds 3000 or more per person for say 10 days including flights

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A trip like this is going to cost pounds 3,000 or more per person for (say) 10 days, including flights from the UK.One final way to do a safari, is to go with an adventure firm such as Exodus Travels (0181 675 5550), Guerba Expeditions (01373 826611) or Explore Worldwide (01252 319448). In practice this is not such a great idea: booking camps independently can be expensive and difficult, costing, in Botswana, from pounds 100-pounds 190 per night. The cheapest option is to take a package with a major operator such as Thomsons. This can be pretty pleasant, though do bear in mind that you'll be travelling around in a minibus with six people to a vehicle, and you can end up spending more time spotting other minibuses than lions. Tel: 01604 628979.The firm can organise stays at Chitabe as part of a tailor-made inclusive holiday.

An all-in two-week itinerary with stays in Chitabe and other Delta Camps, or combined with Zimbabwe, Namibia, South Africa or East Africa costs pounds 2,800.. What is a safari? There are several ways to do a safari. The first is to make it up as you go along, buying a flight to somewhere like Botswana and then booking camps on a nightly basis. Now it's time for the wild dogs to have their turn."botswana fact fileGETTING THEREInformation on the Botswana Wild Dog Research Project from: Private Bag 13, Maun, Botswana.The author travelled via Air Zimbabwe as a guest of Africa Exclusive, Hamilton House, 66, Palmerston Road, Northampton NN1 5EX. It is a riotous hullabaloo of colourful floats and costumes, live bands, throbbing sound systems and crushing crowds. The cathedral's famous attractions include the Whispering Gallery and the view from the Golden Gallery at the top of the dome.

"Lions are represented as 'majestic', King of the Beasts, noble, brave and all that other rubbish."But dogs are always described as being 'savage' or 'vicious', with a bad image that goes back as far as Little Red Riding Hood Farmers shoot them as vermin. We're trying to get some attention for their plight."There are definite fashions in animal conservation Rhino, cheetah and elephant have all had their day. But he's obviously unimpressed, can't be bothered to leave his mark, and he saunters back to his mates.I'm unlikely to see the dogs again - apart from in the breeding season wild dogs are nomadic and can cover a vast territory - but I've the feeling I've started a new love affair and can instantly understand John McNutt's fascination with this much-maligned species."Until now they've had a really bad press," claims John. Wild dogs are sociable and co-operative pack animals where only the dominant male and female usually mate each year, though their offspring are nurtured by all the members of the pack.And then, in one of those close encounters of the most magical kind, a dog appears inquisitively from round the back of the vehicle and briefly locks eyes with me. We move off the track and gradually a pack of nine wild dogs comes into focus. No wonder they call them painted dogs - each one is handsomely marked in his own strip of tawny gold and black in a variety of abstract designs.Sleek and well-fed, they're clearly not hunting, so we follow them slowly until they decide to call it a day in an open meadow. As the sunset goes through a ravishing performance we quietly observe their nightly ritual - some keeping guard, others, probably the younger siblings, romping, licking, yapping, whining and tumbling among the reeds.

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