You will also enjoy ‘street level culture’ with a fascinating blend of cafes, bars, sidewalk musicians, small galleries and bistros where it is hard to draw the line between participant and observer, or between creativity and its creators. Our typical cultural expedition takes you into this remote region of the African continent where you will be immersed into an array of tribal lifestyles and biblical-like living museums. Nowhere in the world is as well-endowed with traditional and tribal cultures as Ethiopia. Herewith a link to a video on Zakouma: Watch VideoĬlick here for more Information about Chad Nearby the Zakouma National Park is a park of extremes and abundance – we encounter flocks of tens of millions of red-billed quelea flying to roost, and is the last stronghold of a thriving population of Kordofan Giraffe, Roan Antelope, Tiang and a host of other somewhat unusual antelope species being hunted by a healthy Lion population. A video for you to watch is on this link: Watch Video Here, you can enter the land of the Tubu one of Africa’s most traditional and least known people, who live amongst a myriad of petroglyphs and rock paintings from generations before.
This part of the Sahara offers a vast collection of sandstone mountains sculpted by the wind and sand over millennia into stunning rock formations and arches. The Ennedi desert is an adventure through remote and breathtaking landscapes that sums up our ethos, and takes you to places that few western travellers have ever been. Chad offers an opportunity to break emphatically with a comfortable Western world and come to a place that promises experiences, good and bad, that you’ll be recalling forever. But let’s be honest about it, these things alone aren’t why people come to Chad.
So why bother, you may ask? Well, we could list the sublime oases lost in the northern deserts, tell you about the stampeding herds of wildlife in the national parks or the deep blue lure of a boat trip on Lake Chad. There are few comfortable hotels and added to that, the summer heat is mind-melting. Travel here is tough – many of the roads are broken due to years of conflict and lack of maintenance.
Shoebill stork origin full#
The shoebills in Pairi Daiza are visible from mid-may until september.Chad has is a country full of adventure and an experience that visitors never forget – Chad is ‘Africa for the hardcore’. It is a bird that is seldom seen in captivity : Pairi Daiza was the first park in the world to have succeeded, in 2008, to hatch two chicks : Abou and Marqoub. Living in wetlands, it feeds not only on fish, but also on snakes, frogs and young varanes or crocodiles, which it swallows whole by dredging the mud with its extraordinary beak.
The Shoebill Stork is so secretive that it was discovered by European scientists only in 1850, at the time of expeditions into the immense marshy areas of Africa, to the sources of the Nile. It is its beak which is especially remarkable : in the shape of a 25cm-long and 10cm-wide shoe, hence its so evocative local name : “ abou marqoub ”, Father of the Shoe! With its round little eyes and its vaguely ironic air when it stares at you, completely motionless, this large wader bird, of a pearl-grey colour, is rather related to herons and pelicans than to storks, with which it shares the silhouette, however.
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