For Journeys Magazine

I watched as a cigarette was passed around and men studied the undergrowth. I heard the song of a scarlet-chested sunbird break the silence. And I was there when, after hours of watching nothing, the bush rustled, a warthog scuttled out and tribesman Jackson fired his arrow.

A trip from north to south Tanzania with the film crew from Animal Planet’s Ultimate Africa series was always going to be a little out of the ordinary …