Diana writes:
The weekend was phenomenal, great safari like digs, expats running it and sending 13 orphan boys to school. I met Peter, Noli, and Nawa & learned much from them (all in grade 9).
The Falls are magnificent, three times as high as Niagara, and at the top before the edge, people were wading and playing, very uncommercial. Outside there were
tenacious vendors.
The other two families were really nice and great travelling companions, especially as one of them was raised in Livingston. He ran into a close old friend who runs the crocodile farm, so before leaving we had a cook's tour of it, including croc pie (delicious).
After the falls, Dad had arranged a sunset tour for the three of us , which was marvelous, except I kept turning to feel your arm and share the whole experience with you. We saw hippos, wildebeest, elephants, kudu, and multiple birds. Sunday we all set out for the border, crossed into Botswana and into our rented land rover with a guide. Several hours watching zebra, herds of buffalo, elephants, giraffes et al. Opportunity of a lifetime, truly thrilling
We took a boat trip next and drew right up to crocs--reach out and do not touch style--and also the chimpanzees, who can be very big and dangerous.
The roads to and fro are being constructed by the Chinese, so Zambian workers with Chinese equipment and overseers...interesting. The trip was six hours, and the condition of most of the roads was bad enough that I banged my head on the roof seven or eight times.
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Where were the falls? (and no, I don't want "Africa!" as an answer!)
Looks like a lot of fun.
When I was in Cuba, we went on a boating trip (as part of a land and river tour). One of the guys I was with jumped out of a boat into the river at one point to cool off.
The guide, who was calm to the point where you could not actually tell if he was serious or fatalistic, observed
You are fairly brave. You did not give me a chance to check for Crocodiles first. This river is known for them.
The look on the lad's face as he treaded water and suddenly considered how tasty he must have looked to a Croc was priceless.
Crocodiles, like Polar Bears and Sharks, stopped evolving a long time ago - get to the top of your food chain, why get better? On their home terrain, even unarmed humans had best give them a lot of respect....
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