Stanley & Livingstone Hotel Victoria Falls

... the smallest antelope) and banded moongoose for the first time.<br><br>On Saturday, we spent the entire day on the road, from 6:30 am to 4 pm, and finally arrived at a campsite on the Okavango River, still in Namibia (much of the Okavango Delta is in Botswana, but we didn't actually go into the delta).<br><br>Well, that's about all the energy I have to write at the moment. Tomorrow I'll try to get caught up to the present. <br>

... experienced in this area...........im happy to make friends with everybody on the streets.........at the same time ensuring that i never end up in any situation that i have no or little control over. you cant shut yourself off from everyone.................and the majority of people are Super Friendly ......and *******n it ...they Love the English Premiership .........so making pals is easy!<br><br>Well, i have definately been immersing myself in adventure.......doing things my own way ...

... unfortunatly one of guy slipped and dislocated his shoulder....so i went with him to the hospita, very substandard hospital...open to air...heh no roofs over the exam rooms haha...<br><br>Poor guy...he had to be put under and have it reduced. I stayed with him in the surgical room to make sure everythign was sterila and safe....he rocevered quite well and is still able to enjoy the rest of the trip. <br><br ...

... up close to these massive beasts. We also learnt a lot about the local tribal people and the bush plants they use for medicine or for food. <br><br>Our last stop in Zim was Vic Falls. Another activity hub and something that we were looking forward to... it was also T&#8217;s birthday &#8211; YAY! The day was spent with T having high tea (yummy cakes) and shopping with the girls while Littleman spent a day rafting (21 rapids &#8211; awesome ...

... poor shape, all night we could hear Hippos making their distinctive loud grunting noises. Luckily they decided not to bother us. The following day our truck was brought off to be fixed yet again, apparently this time it will be fixed for good! In the afternoon we went on a 3 hour cruise around Chobe National Park. We brought a few drinks along as well so it was a bit of a booze cruise as well as game spotting. Once again we saw all the usual characters Elephants, Buffalo ...

... were a good bunch thankfully so we were quite relieved &#8211; pretty much full of Aussies!<br><br>The following day, we did white water rafting at Vic Falls down the Zambezi River. I hadn&#8217;t done white water rafting before and Stef had only done it in Scotland. I was terrified but we had a lot of fun!!!! It was just brilliant and I just hung on for dear life most of the time. We got thrown from the boat a good few times and inhaled most of the river ...

... people were walking in. We did not get very far away before a police man with an AK47 tapped us on the shoulder and said "Tell me what you did." We knew better than to admit we had snuck into Zimbabwe, so we played dumb and gave evasive answers to all his questions. We then took our chances that he would not shoot three young American girls and walked away from him as he said "They will know when you get to the border that you snuck in here and you will go to ...

... that afternoon once we had arrived and set up camp to attempt ourselves to drive these canoes&#8230;. So game was on!! Me and Letitia (my fellow Aussie ginger) got tips from the guides, did some stretches and were ready to beat the boys&#8230;.. so rules were no prior practice, go out and around the island in pairs, once half way swap poler and then back into shore! You cannot possibly imagine the carnage 6 of these canoes could create&#8230;. People were ...

... 8230; Our raft flipped at Oblivion when we hit a standing wave about 10 feet tall. I thought we might make it through, but my side of the raft was too lightweight and we went sideways. It was pretty fun to get thrown into the water, actually, and we all managed to hold onto the raft rope. The water was about 65F but we each had a neoprene shirt so it didn't feel so cold. We didn&#8217;t get banged into any rocks thanks to the deep water, but later on I ...

... difficult. They even offer exchanges for our clothes (I got offered a beautiful bowl in exchange for my socks!!). We eventually leave without buying anything and it&#8217;s a strange experience.<br> We walk back over the border and get in a taxi back to the Waterfront. Tonight is the pre departure meeting for the next part of the trip. We have Michael and Eva joining us from Belgium and they seem lovely. We also have ...