“It’s something our mother would never have done,” Rhonda said. The sisters planned a trip to Africa after their mother died last June as a way to lift their father’s spirits. Classic Africa has organized this sort of tour in southern and eastern Africa for two decades.
Margaret McCutcheon Faber has a PhD from Oxford in cultural anthropology. Pierre Faber, a native South African, holds a PhD from Oxford in business administration. The idea that they should visit Linkwasha, or go to Zimbabwe at all, was the work of Classic Africa, a safari company founded by Pierre Faber and Margaret McCutcheon Faber in a tiny rural town of 18th- and early-19th-century houses at a bend in the Connecticut River, 25 miles from the mouth into Long Island Sound. “And I don’t know if I should look at the lion directly, or not look at the lion. It’s rare to see a lion kill on safari, but, by the time the sisters had left Linkwasha, they had seen three. That lioness was so close to the jeep, Cindy recounted, that she could have touched her fur. A pride of lions at Linkwasha (Credit: Cindy Koch)īefore even arriving at their first camp, the sisters saw elephants, zebras, a butchered wildebeest and the hungry lioness who had felled it. Their guide was asking if they could smell the kill. “The lions had just killed a wildebeest,” said Rhonda. “And I’m like, ‘No, I don’t.’ But what he was really saying was meat.”
Do you smell that mint?’” Cindy explained.
They were in Zimbabwe, on their way from the airport to Linkwasha Camp after a stay at Victoria Falls. The guide asked the sisters as he drove them through the African bush, the reeds of the savanna swaying back and forth along the elevated cab of the jeep.
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