Mfuwe Lodge South Luangwa National Park

... unzipped the tent just in case he walked backwards into the tent. I would then leg it. It never happened. I went to the toilet when he had gone and Dave was laughing his head of. He was going to take a picture but thought that would not be wise.
The park guide said to remain calm and seated and all would be ok. I Was in this land cruiser with a pride of lions stalking a Zebra. The only problem was it had no roof and the lions were 1 meter away from ...

... budget given by moses from the kitty money, and Malawi was quite expensive for food, sadly Zambia is supposed to be much worst…….. o dear….the drive to the Zambia border was only 2 and half hours and I got to finish the third book in th twilight series, whoop!! need the 4th one now!! the border crossing didn't take long, $50 to get in and we’re here ...

... attractive in this light! Dave decided to take all the back routes - at one stage we lost the road completely and had to make our own in order to find the one on the GPS! We drove along the sand banks and saw a massive variety of birds and animals and on the way back saw several vehicles parked by the bank. Suddenly I spotted a huge beautiful male lion sat by a bush with the sun shining on his mane - stunning. We sat and watched him for a while when he quickly got up and ...

... lionesses got up and as she did both Dave and I shouted at the boys to shut the windows as she walked right in front of the car without a care in the world! A little later we came across another pride. This group consisted of several large females, a few youngsters and a beautiful male. They were doing absolutely nothing - we got excited at one stage as one of them got up, but it just moved to a new spot! As we were leaving Dave spotted a cub lying in the bush ...

... a nice tea at the MoonDogs Cafe. The airplane first stopped in Lusaka first. And for whatever reason we all had to get off the plane and take all of our luggage out of the plane. The 15 minutes we brought our luggage back to the same plane and reboarded. I think it might have been easier to leave the luggage, but go figure. We arrived in Livingstone 1 hour after leaving Lusaka. We were quite fortunate to meet a lady who gave us a ride to the hotel, the ZigZag Bed and Breakfast.

Safari came at the most perfect time! Teaching day in and day out can be quite exhausting. We loaded up one of the Land Rovers and rented a minibus for the loooong nine-hour drive to South Luangwa National Park in Mfuwe, Zambia. The roads have been smoothed out in the past year so the ride was not nearly as bumpy, hot, and uncomfortable as Price remembered it. However, nine hours is nine hours. But you really can't complain when you arrive at one of ...

... in my tent by a snuffling sound and breaking twigs. We were warned that a small herd would pass through so I gingerly looked out my tent and came face to trunk with one. Let me tell you they are big anyway, but from a sleeping bag they are enormous. He wasn't much interested in me just the fruit from the trees above so he just looked, snuffled again, and turned round to join the three others about ten yards away. It ...

... A day behind schedule and a leaking hotel roof later (Malawi in rainy season is...rainy) and we were finally on our way to the much awaited South Luangwe National Park. The petrol prices (and in fact ALL prices) in Zambia are exorbidant - more than US$1.80 per litre - so we acted as a local taxi along the way picking up locals and ...

... snorting during the night. Also saw a small heard of elephant drinking at the mouth of a stream. 2 adults and 2 babies... wonderful. Had a fairly hair raising landing at Royal Zambezi courtesy of a sneaky updraft about 10 feet off the ground. Even Rob let out a muffled yelp, so I was excused for grabbing the arm rest!! Evidence that animals, large ones, do cross the strip is easily visible once you are on the ground!! Picked up 2 German tourists and set off for Mfuwe. Rob is a gizmo ...

... is at the border of Zambia. We crossed the border with no problems. Actually, there was one slight problem, which in Africa was not a problem at all. The Dutch guy that was in our safari group had failed to get the necessary shots required by the Zambian government. The border/visa guy was very willing to not let him into the country. Sadie went up and talked to the guy, and after arguing (and bargaining) with the guy, the Dutch guy ...