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Article: Elephant walk: there is only one place in AFrica where you can go on a first-class safari with a herd of elephants - Abu's Camp, in Botswana's Okavango Delta.
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- Town & Country
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- August 1, 1996
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How is it possible--when dinner consists of roast chicken, chocolate soufle and Cognac, and I sleep under quilts in a bed with a padded headboard and awaken to find morning tea at my bedside--to feel even remotely in danger? But fine napery, terry-cloth robes and fragrant cigars notwithstanding, I am indeed in the heart of the wilderness, at Abu's Camp in Botswana. My five-day safari features viewing the big game of Africa from atop an elephant a program that's exotic even by African standards.
"The key to Abu's is becoming part of an elephant family," says camp owner Randall Jay Moore, an American conservationist/biologist who has parlayed twenty-five years' ...