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Hi, it's all about the adventure... ((*_*)) 
Sep 25, 2006 02:00 PM In the dry season it should just be called Victoria...
The crossing in to Zambia was estimated to take 4 hours, but we were lucky this morning and we caught the first ferry.
Onwards to Victoria Falls, however the excitement was quickly diminished when we arrived and let’s just say it was dry. Not bone dry but close to. We went along to river bed to experience a different view; Paul went all the way around and saw the rainbow it created. But it was a bit of a let down. This just means that the next time I will plan for the tail end of the rainy season.
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Sep 24, 2006 02:00 PM Babbling baboons...
The last chance to see wild animals and we’ve still only seen three of the big 5 and no primates.
The day started early with a game drive, around 6.00; I was lucky as I sat in front with the driver and he had the heating on, but Lucy behind was freezing – she was wearing short pants and looked white as a ghost. I gave her my blanket, well that was the least I could do.
The sunset this evening was perfect along the Chobe River, we should have brought some refreshments but alas.
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Sep 23, 2006 02:00 PM Oooh wild animals, I’m afraid
Day 16 and another pit stop to get some money and to surf the net in Kasane. We survived the longest day travelling of 650km, luckily not much more left.
Karen gave us an hour in town or get a taxi back to camp. Now the shoe was on the other foot, she couldn’t get all things done in the time allotted, so we had to wait around for her to finish. What we should have said ‘we’ll meet you back a camp’ and taken the truck, but somehow I don’t think she would have thought that was funny.
On the banks of the Chobe River we listened to the hippos just beyond the trees, I was so happy to know that we had electrified fences protecting us, as you never know what wild animals would do. Then just out of the blue a couple of bulls pass.
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Sep 22, 2006 02:00 PM Anyone have a plastic bag...
We took a flight over the delta to appreciate the vastness of the area and it was brilliant. It cost around $66, initially Alex said he would join us which would have reduced the price, but that he said he couldn’t be bothered – oh well; but we understood, he’d done it all before. He had been travelling for over a year and each activity became less special.
I saw crocodiles basking in the sun, elephants, buffalo; yet again not much wildlife but from up here you could see forever, until my stomach turned with all the turbulence, and proceeded to fill a sick bag, nice!
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Sep 21, 2006 02:00 PM What goes bump in the night...
When we set up camp I noticed a lot of hole around and Costa ‘Chief’ said they were mice, it wasn’t until darkness had fallen did we see the gravity of what he had said. The area became alive with mice and they weren’t afraid of us or the fire. It was very scary with them jumping around; and going to the toilet was another matter. However the following morning we saw leopard and hippo tracks around the camp. The mice must have been laughing at us. We were afraid of the things we can see, but not of the unknown. There is always danger out there.
Picture courtesy: www.thenaturalselection.net and www.wildstuff.co.za. Artist: Rose Rigden. Copyright Footloose Enterprises Pty. Ltd.
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Sep 21, 2006 02:00 PM Forge from the love of liberty...
But in the end we had to just put it our off our mind – we ended up singing songs and playing games. Our polers danced and sang to us – Karen said they were shy but I didn’t see a hint of that, they were performers.
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Sep 20, 2006 02:00 PM The devil's claw...
Today we all decided to exchange email addresses, which is cool as I would like to keep in touch with a few of them, but as always there are one that I could never contact. I think we have all been very accommodating but the realisation is that we are just different people and probably wouldn’t even speak if we hadn’t been thrust together. C’est la vie!
I like Botswana so far, I’ve seen far more people in a day then I saw in the two weeks I was in Namibia. It has also been quite frightening driving, as the cows and donkeys just stand in the road and all the amounts of blowing the horn – they just won’t move. A few close shaves but alas not fatalities.
Today is the bushman walk, and it was really interesting, but so staged. The Bushmen demonstrated how they got food by finding a bush and digging. The only thing is that a melon came out of a hole - now I don’t know too much about farming and growing stuff, but I’m sure melons grew on vines, then they dug up a potato, and it looked freshly washed. Am I supposed to believe that potatoes dug from the ground come out with not a bit of dirt on them???? The only thing that seemed true was they found this plant with seeds and told us to put in on our tongue, after a few minutes it popped as the seed split with the moisture. It really made us laugh. That was fun!
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Sep 20, 2006 02:00 PM My new friend...
Day 13 Onwards to Maun the capital of the Delta region and stopping in the town to exchange some money. We had passed another truck along the highway, and a few of them has some Zambia Karcha (I’m sure I’ve spelt that incorrectly), to sell. Judith thought it might be good to help them out as the money wasn’t good outside the country so we exchanged $20. Karen has posted the exchange rate so we just rounded the numbers off - they were happy and we were happy too.
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Sep 19, 2006 02:00 PM The Trans Kalahari Desert...
I have thoroughly enjoyed Namibia, a cool mixture of desert, sightseeing and safari, not two days were the same, each with its special twist and turns. Surprisingly I’ve really taken to this type of holiday, although I’m not too sure whether I’d do it again, but I’ve had fun. This now seems like the home stretch and another country – Botswana. Now I’m seeing people, cars and domestic animals - this is surely different then the sparsely occupied Namibia.
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Sep 18, 2006 02:00 PM Up here I can see forever...
Day 11 - and a little bit if souvenir shopping as well as bartering, Windhoek is a very pretty city, the sky is so blue, I took a picture of the church and was amazed with the colours. The picture is of the Gibeon Meteorites display in the Post Street Mall. These are known as remnants from the largest shower to ever hit earth and are thought to be over 4 bn years old.
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