Radio Mano, Papa Tchango.

JASMIS

You're readings from Cape Town, South Africa, which is definitely one of the most beautiful

cities in the world that I've seen. It's one of those places like San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro,

Manhattan that were incredibly beautiful before there was ever a city here. It was definitely a

place that whatever people were living here, way back in the day, must have recognized as a sacred

and unbelievably beautiful place, just the table mountain, which of course is famous

around the world. Everyone's seeing images of that. But the air is clean, the sun shines with that

sort of spectacular San Francisco glow and it's just a lovely place. I'm just back from

10-day safari that began in Vinhook, Namibia, across through Botswana, back into Namibia in the north

there's sort of a panhandle situation going on up there and then we were in the Okavango Delta,

I think it's pronounced, which is a huge river system that unlike almost any other river doesn't

end in the ocean. The advice you get is if you get lost, just follow water downstream and eventually

you'll come to a city or the ocean if you really follow it a while. In this case you would come to

a giant swamp where the entire river spreads out like the fingers of a hand and then sinks slowly

into the earth. Very interesting. Anyway, that's the Okavango River, Okavango Delta.

I was there for a couple nights camping along the side, went out on some boats and saw crocodiles

and all sorts of interesting critters and then we went to along the Okavango River,

camped out along there and then ended at Victoria Falls. Any of you who follow me on Instagram are

by now no doubt completely sick of my photos of waterfalls, understandably so. Anyway, I'm back in

Cape Town and this is one of the episodes, one of the very few episodes in which there will not be

a long introduction because the introduction is sort of embedded in the conversation I had with

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