Where each image comes from

Photographs from our own safaris

The 17 photographs in the gallery and the video of the lioness pride were taken on real safaris, with travellers in the vehicle. They are our own material.

Zanzibar

From Wikimedia Commons, under licences that allow commercial use. We chose photographs actually taken on Zanzibar: there are no generic images of other tropical destinations.

• A lateen-sailed dhow off the Zanzibar coast at sunset Drouyn Cambridge, CC BY 2.0
• A dhow silhouetted against the sun setting over the Indian Ocean Winky from Oxford, UK, CC BY 2.0
• A traditional dhow under sail in open water off Zanzibar Harvey Barrison from Massapequa, NY, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
• The Zanzibar red colobus, the monkey endemic to Jozani forest Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
• A Zanzibar red colobus among the branches of Jozani park Mnazini, CC BY 4.0
• Thatched parasols on the white sand of Kendwa beach Zoheb, CC BY-SA 3.0
• A wooden jetty with thatched roofs over the turquoise water at Kendwa Yoni Lerner from Tel Aviv, Israel, CC BY 2.0
• A starfish in the clear water of a Zanzibar beach Giuseppe palumbo, CC0
• A carved wooden door on a house in Stone Town, Zanzibar Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0
• Detail of the carving on a traditional Stone Town door Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0
• Seaweed farming in the shallows off the east coast of Zanzibar Moongateclimber, Public domain
• A woman playing with the wind on Paje beach, Zanzibar Cécile Furet, CC BY-SA 4.0

Video

Apart from the lioness pride, the videos come from stock libraries under licences that allow commercial use. They have been cut into short loops and recompressed for the web; versions derived from CC BY-SA works are published under that same licence.

• A herd of zebras crossing the plains, seen from the air Pexels, Pexels licence
• A traveller leaning out of the safari vehicle window Roman Odintsov, Pexels, Pexels licence
• African elephants by a waterhole, with impalas behind them Roman Odintsov, Pexels, Pexels licence
• African elephants among fallen trees Roman Odintsov, Pexels, Pexels licence
• Elephants wallowing in the mud of a waterhole Roman Odintsov, Pexels, Pexels licence
• A zebra in the dry grass of the savannah Roman Odintsov, Pexels, Pexels licence
• A male impala, close up Roman Odintsov, Pexels, Pexels licence
• A baboon walking across the savannah Roman Odintsov, Pexels, Pexels licence
• Wildebeest drinking at the Grumeti River in the Serengeti Bettina May, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
• Elephants grazing in the Ngorongoro Crater Eric Kilby, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
• Lion cubs on a kopje in the central Serengeti Bettina May, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
• Two hot-air balloons over the savannah at dawn, with topi antelopes in the foreground santosjesus90, Pixabay, Pixabay licence
• A herd of wildebeest on the move during the migration ucuzucuyorum, Pixabay, Pixabay licence
• Elephants at sunset on the Tanzanian savannah seyhmuskino, Pixabay, Pixabay licence