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 …
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 …
Three dogs stay at the campsite…one has obviously just had puppies. They keep trying to get into the garbage. They also get into a fight in the middle of the night and throw themselves against Felix and Alex’s tent. I am rather perturbed when a roar/ growl noise wakes me up. I think, ” what boob is revving their engine in the middle of the night? “Then I realize,it’s …
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We say goodbye to Joana, who is flying back to Portugal today. It is sad to see her go. Lukas from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil joins our family. He sits with Graham. A couple days ago, I mentioned to Gift that it is fortunate that so far none of our group has taken ill. Gift said its because of all our hand washing. I said ” so we probably …