Gajogo Safarilands

From its inception in 2001, Gajogo Safarilands, has set its sights on recapturing this heralded past, and we were lucky enough to find exactly the perfect place to do it: Coutada 9 (Coutadas were set up by the Portuguese as large tracts of wild land to support wildlife conservation and hunting). Uncivilized, unfenced, and by and large uncharted by today’s specifications, this 1.1 million acre hunting paradise was made infamous by the men who hunted this land and swapped their mighty big bore rifles, for something their weathered hands, aching bones, and uncertain steps, could no longer do. Their razor-sharp minds would power the pens* that would forever cement their immortality. Their memories would still put them in harm's way of elephant, buffalo, lion and other worthy opponents of more than a half century ago; in a place where none of these men would have ever left, albeit for age and war. Their books take you there virtually, and Gajogo takes you there literally, to where their footsteps, and now yours, walk in yesterdays legendary safari concessions such as Safrique and Safarilandia. A place where wilderness, local culture, game, diverse terrain, and the raw elements of nature combine to make your safari adventure reminiscent of Africa’s Golden Age. A place where trophy animals have not been professionally hunted since 1974, where any hunting that did exist was for subsistence by locals, and where trophies animals were passed up in preference of more tender and flavorable younger game. A place where competition for breeding rights, water, food and survival was battled out, and won by the biggest, meanest, and most cunning of the species; where only those victors were able to pass on their genes. That combination has produced modern day Coutada 9, a wildlife panacea where numbers are not exceedingly high, but the quality of the trophies are exceedingly magnificent, and the species diversity is superb.