South Africa, Botswana and Zambia

I am loving Africa, it is spectacular. I am doing an Acacia tour for 25 days through, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia and Namibia. We have been through the first three and are looping back tomorrow through Botswana again. We will be in and out of some of the countries. Anyway, it is great. There are 21 people in my group and we travel around on a large truck. It is comfy, way better than I thought it would be. It has tables between some of the seats so we are able to even play cards while driving down the road. Some days we travel 500 km’s. Tomorrow our group splits up and we get new people and carry on to Capetown, the very tip of South Africa and the others go to Nairobi.

It is cool when you have to watch out for elephants and giraffes crossing the road. We see these animals at the side of the road often and stop to check them out.

We have been on game drives, cruises and stayed at many different campsites. The tents are nice and we have mattress pads to sleep on. It is very cold at night and I sleep with 3 sweaters on and two pair of socks and pants some times. In the day it is pleasant and I layer a lot of my clothing.

We saw cheetahs eating an impala (a small antelope) only 4 feet from our jeep that we took on a safari. They had just caught their kill. The national park is not fenced and our vehicle was open so there was no protection from the wild animals that were only 2 – 4 feet from our vehicle. It has been really cool.

We saw a pack of lions and then we saw a male lion, like the one in lion king approaching our vehicle and his lioness. They were about 200m’s away and walked right up and around our vehicle and carried on to where they were going. That was awesome.

We have seen many elephants, rhinos, hippos, giraffes and impalas. The animals are spectacular and we are so close to them. It is hard to imagine they are everywhere. When before this I had only seen some of them in a zoo.

The group of people are great and we went on a booze cruise last night and everyone partied it up. It was well deserved. It was all you can drink for 2 hours. We saw a crocodile, hippos and elephants.

In a couple of hours I am going on a micro light plane (it looks light a large kite) over Victoria Falls, which is similar to Niagara Falls.

Sorry I will have to post the photos at a later date as we do not have internet access very often and when we do it is really slow.