Spitzkoppe to Swakopmund - Namibia June 2008 Spitzkoppe is one of those places you have never heard about and one I would never have visited if it hadn’t been for the tour. As we drove out into the vast Namib desert all I knew was that we were off to see a giant rock, Africa’s …
Etosha National Park - Namibia June 2008 The first big stop in Namibia was Etosha National Park, an extremely long drive day north of Windhoek. Etosha was to be our final National Park of the tour, which left a sad feeling beginning to take a hold of me. We were about to commence a series …
The Okavango Delta - Botswana June 2008 Our first stop in Botswana was Chobe National Park, famed for having possibly the largest concentration of elephants in Africa, totalling around fifty thousand. We were obviously becoming accustomed to the craziness that Africa had a habit of throwing our way because even an elephant running loose in …
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Victoria Falls - Livingstone - Zambia June 2008 I’ve had better nights’ sleep. I was bricking myself over the thought of doing a bungy jump. It had tormented me for weeks beforehand and now the day had arrived I was not feeling too great about life! Then a stroke of luck followed in that our …
South Luangwa National Park - Zambia May 2008 Zambia, wow, what can I say about this country? It took me one full day to fall in love with it and with every day that passed, the more I loved it. The wildlife, the people, the landscapes were extraordinary. We experienced some of our closest encounters …
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