Zimbabwe

Published May 2, 2004 12:00AM


The Trip-Finder, January 1998 Zimbabwe Tracking Rhinos in Hwange National Park The Route: Play Ph.D. candidate for nine days as you camp in the bush and help biologists track, count, and study the endangered black rhinoceros, a 3,000-pound beast that is notoriously bad-tempered and aggressive. When to go: May, July, November, December Difficulty: Moderate Travel advisory: Bring a pair of powerful binoculars. Your camp perches at the edge of a mesa overlooking a vast plain that teems with wildebeests, antelope, lions, giraffes, and cape buffalo. High/low points: Having your clothes washed and ironed every day by camp staff. Discovering that the ironing is necessary to kill maggots that live in clothes and would otherwise bore through your skin, eventually emerging as large worms. Copyright 1998, Outside magazine

The Trip-Finder, January 1998
Zimbabwe Tracking Rhinos in Hwange National Park The Route: Play Ph.D. candidate for nine days as you camp in the bush and help biologists track, count, and study the endangered black rhinoceros, a 3,000-pound beast that is notoriously bad-tempered and aggressive. When to go: May, July, November, December Difficulty: Moderate Travel advisory: Bring a pair of powerful binoculars. Your camp perches at the edge of a mesa overlooking a vast plain that teems with wildebeests, antelope, lions, giraffes, and cape buffalo. High/low points: Having your clothes washed and ironed every day by camp staff. Discovering that the ironing is necessary to kill maggots that live in clothes and would otherwise bore through your skin, eventually emerging as large worms. Copyright 1998, Outside magazine

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