Early morning drive in South Luangwa NP

We were up at 5.0am for a light breakfast of coffee and cereal before our early morning game drive. We were very happy not to have to take our tents down! At 5.45am, our two 4 x 4s arrived and we split into two groups of 10. There is still a clear divide between the old and new groups! We ended up with 9 of the original group and one new member. Our driver was Musa. We set off together, but soon went our separate ways. We spent four hours in the park. During that time we saw:

• Lots of bushbucks
• Vervet monkeys
• Waterbucks
• The nest of a pair of hammerkopfs, as well as the birds themselves
• Hundreds of guinea fowl
• A family of warthogs searching for food in the mud
• Loads of impalas
• Groups of baboons
• Elephants, including very young ones
• Hippos
• An African Fish Eagle, the national bird of Zambia
• Crocodiles
• Zebras, including one with a nasty gash on its leg
• Plovers
• Marabou storks
• Buffalo
• Fava bean storks
• Sacred ibis
• Thorneycroft giraffesЧитать далее