Victoria Falls Safari Lodge

... told ......when and where to leave been organized by the tour agents.......<br>The other way is to hire a great big 4x4 and cruise round at your own pace .........where and when you like...............a great way to see you the country .....if you have the disposable income .<br><br>Well i dont have the cash .....nor do i have patience or tolerance to travel several countries with a tour group of young people having fun!.....and the same people day in day out wreaks of Big Brother ...

... bite you...haha...but we all survived. all limbs intaact. very very cool experience though!<br><br>Today we walked down to the falls...sooo pretty although i would love to see them when it is the rainy season..they would be 10x bigger. but besides that we walked all along the edge and took some cool pics. <br><br>This aternoon i am going out with half the group on a sunset boat cruise on teh zambezi river above vic ...

... power behind that water was quite unbelievable. It was amazing to finally see them in &#8216;real life&#8217; after wanting to see them for such a long time. We had a nice walk around the area, got soaked and then went back to the campsite for our first official night of camping. <br><br>After Zim, we headed to Zambia. <br><br>Zambia<br><br>We just touched on a small part of this country really. We stayed at quite a nice little campsite that overlooked the ...

... dinner at our hostel's bar and enjoyed some beers with the Zambezi rafting guides who convinced us that we had to go rafting on the Zambezi. We got into an interesting discussion about AIDS affecting behavior in both America and Africa after witnessing a Chicago Law student leave the bar with an African prostitute and return 15 minutes later telling us he just "paid her cab fare home." It was an interesting night to say the least. <br><br>We stayed out a bit too ...

... but that was ok because he<br>was a kiwi. He drove at about 40km/h on a road full of potholes and rocks. He<br>took us through some rapids but two in particular, one was called Monique's<br>shower, which was just a really big spray of water that came over the front of<br>the boat. But the next rapid was called the bath and that's exactly what it was<br>a wave of water going all the way over the boat. He also showed us a creek that ...

... br><br>I&#8217;m struggling a bit now to remember what happened next ( I&#8217;m writing this now about 6 weeks later)&#8230; but I do remember we camped at a very remote campsite where we went on the most interesting walk with some local bushmen. The african bushman are found in parts of Botswana, South Africa, Namibia and Angola&#8230;. They are not black and they are not white, so they were always referred to as coloured. Picture the little guy from The ...

... was glad that the exit gate was still open at 6:15 pm when I left, as there was no security guard to let me out otherwise. <br><br>I had written my 3rd post card in 3 weeks while awaiting sunset, so I jogged to the post office from the national park to mail it. I really did not want to fend off any more curio sellers, beggars, hustlers, or the like, so I had no patience for a young guy with a wood carving in one hand who started jogging alongside me ...

... into the wild yet.<br><br>We set off to where the lions are and start walking into the bush. Suddenly we see three female lions walking towards us - it's quite a scary sight to begin with! They are just over a year old, so look a lot larger than we had imagined. It's an amazing experience. The lions generally walk in front of us but are obviously in a playful mood as they are constantly play fighting and stalking ...