Kapamba Bushcamp South Luangwa National Park

... decing to walk acrs camp to mnch on some trees, aprently it’s a regular thing, you have to be really far way as they can charge at 54km an hour, fast!!

quite a cool experience to see elephants in such short distance so crazy!!

tomorrow back to Chipata to mamarulas to break up the drive to Lusaka, which is the capital of Zambia, long drive day Saturday to the capital roughly 10 hours, then 4 hours to the houseboats on Sunday on lake Kariba, exciting week next week!

... of Malawi. With 12 million people and only very little land as Lake Malawi takes up 1/5th of the country's area, Malawi is overcrowded. As HIV /AIDS infection rates are one of the highest in southern Africa, half of the population is under the age of 15. You see old people and very young ones, but few in-between. The Malawians are very friendly, but at the same time hold their hand out for money as we have experienced in most other countries. The average Malawian is poor ...

... supposed to be on duty protecting us all from elephants. On the way back to the campsite we saw the same elephant throwing his weight around against a car! He broke the window of the car as the owner had apparently left some food in there. As an aside we also did some game drives here including at night where we saw some lions and some nocturnal animals like genets, civets, hyenas and bush babies.

... us, we rushed to hide in the bathroom until he had passed. In addition to the setting, the camp had a great atmosphere at the bar and restaurant - the food was amazing! On Friday night all the local ex-pats turned up for dinner and drinks. It was really interesting to meet this small but tight community. South Luangwa Park is a must do for someone looking for a great safari experience. It offers an amazing combo of wildlife ...

My flight was due to take off at 08.00 and at 07.55 still nobody had arrived. Suddenly, I was being paged. I rushed to their office and someone took my bag and we strode to the aircraft, a 18-seater Jetstream. I was expecting a plane full of passengers awaiting my arrival but found I was the only one except for the flight attendant and the pilot! She gave me private safety briefing and the pilot welcomed me over ...

... on his head! Once we recovered from the bee stings, the tour went very well and it was interesting to see how they made the beautiful fabrics and colourful designs. Of course, we had to pick up a few things to remember the experience! We stayed at a campsite just outside the park. Since the campsite is not fenced off, animals ...

... in the bushes. It was only a cub. However, the best was yet to come. Later that night, in darkness, we came back to the tree where we had seen the impala. We were astonished to see the leopard cub and it's mum fast asleep in the tree! It was amazing - fuzzy photo though. The game drives were astonishing with so many of these animals coming so close to the jeep. On several occasions we would turn a corner to find a giraffe ...

... started to freak out but luckily there was a guy on our trip that told us that the lions can't see us individually and instead just sees the shape of the vehicle which it recognizes as something like an elephant so it won't even bother with us. That is unless someone is stupid enough to move their arms outside of the car, then the lion will recognize the shape as prey. I'm so glad that this guy told us (which I kind of hoped that our ...

... round, rain hail or shine, a car wash at a service station has been turned into a rug (as in floor) wash and a small army of people were scrubbing away at peoples rugs... Although very poor Lusaka is cleaner than most cities I have seen, again armies of people wielding household brooms sweep the streets. Every school child (black or white) I saw was scrubbed to within an inch of their life and wearing a spotless uniform. Poor in financial terms only it seems, pride is still alive and ...

... often babies
in their group. So elephants always have right of way! Sometimes people
had just gone off to the toilet and were unable to return to their own
camp because an elephant was inbetween. Africa dictates patience in all
kinds of ways.





At night we saw hyenas throwing over garbage cans and ...