'When Clarissa and I traveled to the Congo for the first time in 1996 we literally blew our life savings on this journey so that I could get material for paintings of the African rainforest at Ndoki. It was a huge gamble and we had a fantastic adventure in the Ndoki forest. It was a huge gamble that provided us with the adventure of a lifetime but was the toughest trip I have ever been on. Our Benjele guides, being forest people, were hunting bush meat for their village and both Clarissa and I were ill for some of the time. But in spite of the problems we saw a lot but finding Bongo proved difficult. It was only in the last week that I saw one magnificent individual about two kilometers for our forest camp even though we had been walking 8 hours a day for weeks looking for them. They had be close by all the time and almost within earshot of our noisy Benjele camp.'
To see my documentary Ndoki Foot Safari about that journey click HERE.

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