Azambezi River Lodge Victoria Falls

... or tourists from one backpacker hostel to another........whilst at the hostel .........you can flick through brochures advertising expensive hour long to full day activites for you to enjoy. These activities varied from............walking with Lions.........to Visiting the Gorge ..............take a tour to the Desert..........etc etc.........To me this definately did not feel like immersing myself in a country .............and with the prices that they charge i think id rather drink ...

... do it here<br>though the falls are in full glory the rafting is at its best, aand you do it all day from ealry mrnong start till late afternnon<br>one of the best excerise ive done in a long time!!<br>i found it way more scary as when you went under, which i could only hack three times then i had to ask to move to the non flipping boat, as when u go under you feel youre not going to come back up ...

... Because of this we all went out for a big group dinner on Friday night. It was a good night as there was a group of tribal dancers on tour staying in the same campsite as us and they put on an amazing show after dinner. We then spent all day Saturday nursing sore heads by the swimming pool. We said goodbye to a few people who were leaving that night as well. After much debate we decided to go look at the Victoria Falls on Sunday. The reason we were contemplating not going is ...

... good old Larium!!!<br><br>We drove through Zambia and onto Malawi. Along the way through most of Africa we went through small villages where the locals live in little thatched huts and the women go and get their family water and make food while the kids run around like adorable little munchkins. Most of the kids see the truck coming and run along side it waving, some of the kids literally get so excited you think they&#8217;ll self combust. It was beyond cute!!!

... The gorge swing was the best - you are tied with a harness, jump off the cliff, have 70 meters free fall and then swing on the rope over the Zambezi river. The biggest adrenaline rush, I did it twice - first jumping face down, like skydiving, the second time from a push up, they lift your feet, and then you plunge down like you are diving in a swimming pool.

... house they were living in was in the process of being completed- it was being built by Brooks's father who was working in SA. It had no furniture or floors or electricity and they cooked dinner over charcoals in the pitch black! We brought with us some 'Powers dry spirit of Malawi' and some mixers (at their request...) which we started on with the boys while the food got going (in Malawi only prostitutes drink alcohol but apparently it's ok for Muzungo (white ...

... was our first real real dose of civilisation&#8230; KFC and trendy pubs with people with trendy clothes, us overlanders felt quite daggy. It was also the good test of how much weight has the cook actually helped me put on&#8230;.. oh yes jeans feeling VERY tight!! You would think&#8230; you go to africa&#8230; youll lose a bit of weight&#8230; but NO!! This is a big misconception&#8230; you sit on a truck for 60 days&#8230; get fed pancakes for brekkie, then ...

... experience. I ducked inside and the guy finally let me go. I was a little mad at myself for losing my patience and responding in such an unfriendly way.<br><br>We paid for the video and photos even though they weren&#8217;t the greatest, as Cha and Torie were willing to split the $40 cost with me. We wouldn&#8217;t receive it until the next day but foolishly paid for it anyways, and when we did get it we found that it didn&#8217;t play on Jules&#8217; laptop.

... call that there are lions so we head off and join about another ten 4x4s all vying for a position to see the lions. We realise that they are stalking some warthogs which are grazing nearby so we sit with cameras glued to our faces for about ten minutes waiting for the kill, but it's ruined at the last moment by the overly excited lion cubs who give away the females position and the ...