The great adventure
Male Speaker: Botswana is a country with some of the best wild game viewing on the entire African continent. Ann Taylor from Billings, Montana has come here with her younger daughter Farley. Although this is their first visit to Botswana, Ann roots are in Africa. This is the continent of her birth.
Ann Taylor: Africa is a part of me and so I wanted to become a part of Farley, would not I wanted to become I like to share it with her, l like to share my passion.
Bailey Taylor: Hearing and I have heard stories about reading about Africa and so finally see it through her eyes will remain with me for forever.
Ann Taylor: I just was born in Ethiopia and grew up in Kenya and I had an incredible childhood. I spent most of my time with my horse in the forest and we chase elephants. In 970 I married an American and had to leave Africa to go live in Billings, Montana which was, I also enjoy but without Africa I don't fully exist.
Male Speaker: Ann and Farley's first stop is Chobe Chilwero it's located on the Chobe River in northeast Botswana on the border of Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Farley Taylor: The view is amazing, we are looking over the Chobe River with the flood plains behind and you can if you take your binoculars you could see big herds of elephant and parts of Hippo and this morning there were some buffalo, its just a very, very broad beautiful view.
Lan Johnston: Botswana is increasable wild life destination because it still has natural wilderness zones, areas which have been as they have always been and animals have been able to migrate and move and carry on natural behavior.
Male Speaker: The cab provides professional guides as drivers who take small groups of guest into the bush in search of African game. Early on the trail Ann and Farley come face to face with two Sable Antelope.
Ann Taylor: I can't believe that he is not running away, he is posing. Look how beautiful he is. Well he is coming this way, sort of very frightening. She is absolutely just notice the stripes on his face. That is truly attraction.
Male Speaker: Then and even more astonishing site comes into view, a herd of elephants.
Male Speaker 2: That being lead by female cow, known as the --.
Ann Taylor: Here they come, oh my gosh, this is going to be rather exciting. How many do they go in that herd. Five, it's okay that's a safari. All right.
Male Speaker 2: And very angry beast.
Ann Taylor: Cute.
Male Speaker 2: One of them half, two month.
Male Speaker: The narrowly missed getting involved in a fight between two bulls.
Ann Taylor: And he is leaving, oh so lucky.
Male Speaker: In the late afternoon Ann and Farley take a guided motor boat tour on Chobe River. Up ahead a herd of Hippos.
Male Speaker 3: The true story is their potential, it'll be very dangerous, what you don't want to do is come between a hippo and water, so if you come between a hippo and water you are going to come all sick and wet and that's what happened and hence the reputation of being in the most dangerous one.
Ann Taylor: If we all begin to think what is important in another culture and we come to Africa and we here bottom of the food chain. I like in America, it's very nice but I am never quite at home I come back here and everything is in balance. It has a magic about it which is almost impossible to put into words. I haven't yet found anybody that puts it correctly in to words it's just a feeling.
Farley Taylor: I had the greatest part is sort of the after hours when we were you know both lying in bed and sort of talking about you know what has transpired throughout the day and that's what's really fun you know to have that our own time with each other. I love the sounds at night you know to hear the lions roaring and hyenas they are cackling, and the baboons we just got a real sense of nature and sort of rawness here. The baboons woke us up at about 5:30, 6:00 or so and but it was nice because I mean it's much better to wake up to that than sort of the beeping of an alarm clock.
Male Speaker: For the highlight of their adventure in the Botswana Ann and Farley are about to take advantage of one of avid climbing hence most unusual like activities.
Male speaker 4: This is Jabber, this our bull, we got a bull and two cows. Jabber is 14-years old. So he is just a youngster. He is not nearly full grown yet, he'll grow as much as another meter at the shoulder. He could easily double in weight as well.
Ann Taylor: It was taking my breath away no words.
Male Speaker: Ann and Farley get a formal introduction to three elephants. Jabu, Chamibi and Mourara. The three rescued elephants are under the care of Doug Groves and his wife Sandi. Their organization Living with Elephants is dedicated to teaching people about elephants on a uniquely personal level.
Doug Groves: This is one of there favorite foods this time at here. This is the real palm and they shake the tree to get the nuts.
Male Speaker: Ann and Farley copy the elephant to there favorite lagoon. There Doug provides Ann and Farley with an elegant picnic. The picnic is interrupted when two wild elephants suddenly show up near by.
Male Speaker 4: I just want to make sure that if KK has to fire the starter gun or something that these guys don't get frightened. But everybody it's nice and calm so it's not a house. It's a little bow that has frequented that area for the past couple of weeks.
Ann Taylor: There are hardly words that can describe it, it's just amazing. To be having lunch here in the bush with three elephants and then two wild ones on the outskirts and I can't even describe it is, it's a dream come true, my fantasy.
Farley Taylor: No parallel whatsoever to this experience.
Male Speaker 4: No, leave it
Male Speaker: The danger passes and after the picnic the elephants cool off in the lagoon. Today has been highlight of Ann and Farley's adventure in Botswana and it makes going home difficult.
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