24 Travel Zambia November 2007 Green Season BRYAN JACKSON / REMOTE AFRICA SAFARIS

November 2007 Travel Zambia 25 Emerald Smile The rainy season: a time of downpour and deluge, impassable roads, impenetrable bush, wildlife heading for the hills or vanishing behind a wall of greenery. Certainly no time for a safari. Or is it? Anna Devereux Baker donned her waterproofs and headed to South Luangwa National Park to find out for herself. There is no better way to appreciate the intensity of Luangwa’s rainy season than from the river itself.