Exploring !Khamab Kalahari Reserve
Brave the Kalahari on foot. Track lions, sleep under stars, and disconnect from time. Experience true wilderness with Lowveld Trails Co. in South Africa’s vast !Khamab Reserve.
A First-Timer’s Guide to the Kalahari Primitive Trail
Step into the heart of the wild, where Nature’s story unfolds with every footstep, and the Wilderness comes alive around you.
Kalahari Enraptured: A Journey into Wilderness Trails
The moment that the vehicle appeared to collect us at the end of our Primitive Trail, an unexpected and overwhelming sense of loss overcame me. Over a short time I had come to feel quite at home in this place, together with my band of wanderers. The innate gratitude, freedom and lightness which I experienced while on Trail was hard to leave behind. Hence why, in the days that followed, I began to put my experience down in words, trying to recapture ‘that feeling’.
The Animal and the Cage
Imagine for a moment that the zoo keeper forgot the Lion’s enclosure open one night. The animal could easily step out and become free. However, its immediate surroundings will still be artificial and ecologically shattered. There will be no way in which this Lion can sustain itself and it will ultimately perish. The Lion can only ever be wild if the space it occupies allows it to be. Therefore, one could argue that space holds the spirit of the wild.
So, if a Lion’s state of being can range from captive to free, then the space it occupies can go from cagy to Wilderness. The idea that space can range in wildness may be more challenging to define, but it doesn’t justify ignoring such intrinsic value altogether.
