Sleeping in a tented camp at Mana Pools means experiencing a rare kind of luxury and touching the very essence of safari.
No wifi, just a spacious tent, clean linen, a hot shower and the vibrant silence of the bush.
In the evening, when everything settles, I remember that suspended moment when the silence is punctuated by the crack of a branch under an elephant's step, the distant laugh of a hyena, the deep grumbling of hippos in the Zambezi and the call of bee-eaters greeting the dawn.
It was in being far from everything that I fully felt nature — every sound, every scent, every sensation.
To my mind, nothing compares to a bush camp for savouring the full Mana Pools experience!