Creative Artist - Issue 10_

(where I camped) I walked a few metres to

a man-made waterhole with an amphitheatre

of seats around it and watched as thirty-

three elephants drank and frolicked. I even

had an ice cold cider in my hand while I

watched.

Contrast that with the lousy shot of the

elephant in Penjari National Park in the north

of Benin, West Africa. To get there we had

to drive for two days along roads that were

so full of potholes that we often couldn’t go

faster than walking pace, witnessing as we

went the remains of countless truck and car

crashes. When we got to the park, there had

been so much rain that the grass was higher

than a truck. In addition, with so much water

around, the animals had dispersed to all

corners of the park rather than congregating

around waterholes. Hence, we barely saw

The Big Challenge

Hippo

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