No. 15 When the Safari Comes to You

South Africa

Our safari guide, Surprise, slung a rifle over his shoulder and beckoned us to follow him along the gravel path. We’d arrived at the lodge, Chitwa Chitwa in Sabi Sands, South Africa, in the early evening in time for a game drive. We had returned in the dark, and required an escort across the compound.

“You must never go out at night,” Surprise warned. “…