Most safaris in Africa are driving safaris. You spend lots of time driving around in a vehicle looking for animals.  Having been habituated to the vehicles over time, the animals are unafraid of them and don’t seem to “see” the people riding inside.  South Luangwa National Park is particularly known for being one of the first, and probably the best, places in Africa for “walking safaris”.  Being on foot in the bush means close up views of the animals are more difficult since they are rightly afraid of us, their main predator.  A walking safari is a lot about the little things that we can’t examine closely from a vehicle…like poo and paw prints and insects and bones. Our most fascinating times were spent examining aardvark poo to find the little shiny ant heads inside or watching a column of Matabele (soldier) ants marching off to raid a termite mound.  We looked at holes dug by elephants in the dry riverbed just big enough for a trunk to reach fresh water a few feet down.  Who knew that you can tell whether an elephant was walking fast or slow by the pattern of its footprints in the sand? Some safari goers have a morbid fascination with seeing a “kill” – maybe from watching too many National Geographic specials in childhood.  The only “kill” we saw on our two days in the bush was an ant lion capturing an ant that had strayed into its conical lair.  I’m telling you though looking at animal poo is much more than it’s cracked up to be!