<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Mama Tembo Times]]></title><description><![CDATA[Articles]]></description><link>http://www.mamatembotours.com/mttimes/</link><copyright><![CDATA[Copyright Mama Tembo Times]]></copyright><generator>sNews CMS</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Lunar Rainbow]]></title><description><![CDATA[  Belated Happy New Year every one! I spent mine at Victoria Falls, bearing in mind, as I always do, what a wise Russian friend told me long ago. "You end the year the way you begin it."  

  
  
  

  There was a full moon on the 31st which meant that the falls were open to visitors hoping to catch sight of a lunar rainbow.  A group of us who stayed at Waterberry Lodge, a peaceful and unpretentious place on the banks of the Zambezi River, left for the falls after sunset armed with champagne and cameras.  The clouds slowly cleared. With help from Photoshop this is what the rainbow looked like. Back at Waterberry, we enjoyed a late dinner and afterwards sat around a camp fire listening to the territorial snorts of hippos.  On New Year's Day, a fine sunny day, I returned to the falls to photograph the falls' solar rainbow. The picture was taken looking across the gorge into Zimbabwe, a country which shares the famous falls with Zambia.  

  
  
  ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:32:15 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.mamatembotours.com/mttimes/current-newsletter/lunar-rainbow/</link><guid>http://www.mamatembotours.com/mttimes/current-newsletter/lunar-rainbow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[African Skies]]></title><description><![CDATA[  I am adding a new category to MTT's safari priority list (on the homepage), which is a very important one for photographers: African skies. On a continent known for its big skies, and outstanding sunrises and sunsets, Zambia emerges as the clear leader, especially now during the rainy season when cumulus clouds swell and expand vertically until they look like the aftermath of some mighty explosion. Which is what happens later when these gorgeous towers of billowing white become darkened thunderheads and unleash a sudden, short, always dramatic downpour.  I took these "sky" pictures at my home as a late afternoon storm was building, another at sunrise on the Zambezi River at Livingstone's Waterberry Lodge.  

  
  
  

  
  
  

  
  
  ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:31:17 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.mamatembotours.com/mttimes/current-newsletter/african-skies/</link><guid>http://www.mamatembotours.com/mttimes/current-newsletter/african-skies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zambia&#039;s Emerald Season Safaris]]></title><description><![CDATA[  Those of us who live in Africa love the wet season.  Life-sustaining rain restores the dry and brittle bush to its green glory and ragged and thin wildlife to sleek good health. Many animals are breeding. Many migratory birds have arrived from their wintering grounds. And then there are those incredible green season skies and passionate rain showers which freshen the world until it sparkles.  

  Admittedly, the rainy season makes going on safari more difficult. Here in Zambia, the accommodations of South and North Luangwa National Park close at the end of November to wait out the rains and the Luangwa River's seasonal flooding with the exception of a few lodges like Robin Pope's Nkwali  and Norman Carr's Kapani.  

  But going on safari isn't impossible in Luangwa during the wet season. You go by boat. Norman Carr's Kakuli Camp is accessible by boat and is therefore the only bush camp in the park that remains open. All game viewing from Kakuli must be undertaken by boat as well, or by foot. It is not possible to get around by vehicle. Offered between mid-January and early April, Norman Carr calls this green season travel its "Rivers and Rainbows" Safari. Please watch for my review of it in the next newsletter. I am heading to Luangwa again at the end of February.  ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:30:37 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.mamatembotours.com/mttimes/current-newsletter/zambias-emerald-season-safaris/</link><guid>http://www.mamatembotours.com/mttimes/current-newsletter/zambias-emerald-season-safaris/</guid></item></channel></rss>
