Zimbabwe

We were up early and paid $49 each to go on a 3 hour game drive to Chobe National Park. We saw so many animals despite the area having so many vehicles. We drove down along the Chobe River and saw one male lion and fairly near were a lion and lioness lying together, the guide said that they might be mating. We also saw them lying in the shade 20 meters off the road late in the trip. Other sightings included antelope, hippos (in and out of the water), lots of baboons, many with young they were carrying on their backs or the young clinging to the other’s belly. We saw a herd of elephants right in front of the truck, including a mother and 2 week old baby. Also sighted were lots of birds, Giraffes, Kudus, small Crocodiles, a group of Banded Mongoose. The big sighting was a Lion sleeping in some shade; we were only 10 feet away from him, so we were glad that he didn’t wake up! Then we drove across the border to Zimbabwe and stayed in a beautiful Lodge for the last night of this part of our trip. For dinner and the evening we went to the Boma, a fancy dinner and evening entertainment establishment that had singing, drumming and dancing after dinner, African style. It was a lot of fun! I put a photo of that on tomorrow’s post.Read more