sable antelope herd part 2 juvenile resting with family

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These sable antelope try to beat the heat in the shade - on safari at Okavango Delta, Botswana • 'The sable is a rotund, barrel-chested antelope with a short neck, long face, and dark mane. Both males and females boast impressive ringed horns that rise vertically and curve backward. When they arch their necks and stand with their heads held high and tails outstretched, they resemble horses. This flexed-neck position makes sables appear larger than they really are. The males maintain this position even when they gallop, as the arched neck is an important manifestation of dominance. • As they grow older, sables change color. Calves are born reddish-brown, with virtually no markings. As they age, the white markings appear, and the rest of the coat gets darker — the older the animal, the more striking the contrast.' https://www.awf.org/wildlife-conserva... • Tips from my trip: • Unlike the other camps on this Botswana trip, I have no mixed feelings about Duba Explorers camp owned by Great Plains Conservation - IT SUCKED!!! Trust me…DO NOT give this company your business!! • After my trip, I found out that right before I arrived, another person had so many issues at Duba, she asked to leave. But unlike me, she was allowed to return to Selinda Explorers (at no additional cost). • After Duba repeatedly failed to resolve significant issues, I also asked to leave, but they refused to let me leave early with a refund, or go to another camp like they did for the other dissatisfied guest. They refused to provide me any compensation for the camp’s repeated failure to provide the basic services for which I paid $12,220 for 4 days. • Great Plains Conservation is clearly too big to care about their clients. They have the worst employees and service out there - well, tied with Asilia Africa... Sad when your best service/food while on vacation was on the plane ride to and from… • Tents: • bed crawling with live bugs! under comforter, inside sheets, had to bugspray bedding before bed, and try to air out - unable to get good sleep, felt bugs crawling on me all night • nasty room attendant twice failed to replenish dirty washcloths (used on private bits) left on floor and instead just rehung dirty on a hook - ICK!! • I was only 1 of 2 sets of guests, but they put me in the crappiest tent closest to the kitchen and main lodge - the staff was soooo noisy for hours between safaris - not relaxing • broken fan, had to repeatedly ask the female manager to fix it; super hot there - completely inadequate tiny fan • Food: • every day was a horrible meal experience, they: • ignored my dietary requests at almost every meal and served me food I couldn’t eat or didn’t like to eat • incompetent servers couldn't even get food orders right: on day 4 for breakfast, I asked for eggs, bacon, side of fruit, and a bowl of cereal with cold milk. I got eggs, bacon and a parfait of yogurt, fruit and granola - even though yogurt’s on my ‘do not eat/serve’ list and despite having just ordered 10mins prior - imagine if you had a food allergy! this place can’t be bothered • served me spoiled chocolate milk 2days in a row • despite fancy presentations, dinners were awful - poorly cooked, unbalanced, flavors were off, to the point of being unenjoyable/inedible; I had to send back meals and instead order fried eggs at least 5 times • couldn't properly cook meat, eggs; ordered two eggs and each would be cooked differently...wtf • Guides: • the managers refused my request, before I arrived, to give me a guide other than the girlfriend of the Selinda camp guide who got in trouble after he harassed me • female was nice the first day then retaliated/passive aggressive - refused to follow wild dogs at my repeated requests; after spoiled milk, I didn't feel well, asked to go home fast, she drove slowly, I asked her to pick it up, she slowed down even more...etc • Day 3, I complained, finally got a new guide just off vacation; he was better than the female for 1st safari, but the next 3 he kept falling asleep during at a lot of the stops • he didn’t respect wildlife and ran them down, especially if they were in the shade (so he could park there). I had to repeatedly tell him that I wanted to film them where they stood/laid, not scared and scattered • he also repeatedly ignored my requests - I asked to go south to specific waterholes, he went east, far east. I had asked to stay on the reserve and he still tried to drive out through fence • Managers: • a married passive aggressive couple, completely incompetent; failed to resolve ANY of the issues I brought to their attention • failed to send staff to help me with my bags to the helicopter-despite radioing 2x after they were 10min late. I had to carry 23kg from my tent to the landing pad. I struggled past staff, manager and she just gave me a cruel smile. Only the helo pilot offered to help me. I thought Aslia Africa was bad…I was so glad to leave this sh*tshow of a camp and company…

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