I was thinking the other day about the BIG changes I've seen in African hunting since I started going over in the early 2000's. I'd put these three at the top of the list:

1. Power. It used to be that camps (and this is mostly outside of South Africa) relied upon generators for all power in the camp. The generator ran for a few hours a day and if you weren't plugged in while it was running, you were out of luck. And once it shut down at night, you were literally in the dark.

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