Tarangire National Park

We sleep well. I wake up and have a cold shower. It’s only after I come out of the washroom that Shawn tells me I need to turn on the hot water switch before I shower….hmmmm. We have a breakfast of fresh bananas, homemade pineapple juice, bread, crepes, eggs and tea.  We meet our guide, Chochi, put some of our luggage into the jeep, ( the rest we leave …

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From Johannesburg to Nairobi to Arusha

For the first time since the day after the gorge hike, my thigh muscles are not hurting…I used muscles on that hike that I didn’t even know I had. The numerous red dots on my legs are still as vibrant as they were two days ago. The Breakfast buffet at the Aviator Hotel is substantial…with lots of meat but also lots of fruit. Cameron put our bug spray and …

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Last Days at Victoria Falls

Victoria Falls is a small tourist town with a main area of tourist shops, markets , a grocery store, restaurants and excursion places. The sound of helicopters taking tourists over the falls is constant. Zimbabwe doesn’t have its own currency; they take US dollars, Namibian dollars, Euros, Botswana Pulla and Rand. Shawn asks Gift what they give you when you go to the bank machine? Gift replies ” sometimes …

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Chobe National Park – Pure Magic

We set up our tents at a Chobe National Park campsite. The bar/ gathering area is lovely but the internet is temporarily not working. We all sit around the fire after a delicious Heartbeest stew. A painfully skinny and submissive dog eats our scraps then lays down by the fire. I get up at 5:45am and shower by flashlight. There is finally Internet at the bar which I check …

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