An African fish-eagle takes time out from eating a freshly caught fish to seemingly stare at the anthropomorphic shapes construed around it in the dried trees.
Not my best Milky Way shot, but one which illustrates how much you can see by staying in a smallish camp and a boundary location toward the edge of the camp. We stayed in two LS tents, and jumping down from the stoep in the clearing below, you don't even need to give it your statutory 20 minutes for your eyes to adjust. Stars pierce, shapes emerge, galaxies awaken. Wait around and it gets better, but I'd say this comes close to that first 'out of the forest' moment.
I didn't have time to move the entire tented structure so that it would align with the core of the Milky Way, so this will have to do. ISO 6400, 30 seconds, a tripod panicking at the risk of snakes, and a strange woman braiing under a meteor filled sky. Who needs luxury? :)
