Oops, forgot about the Walking Safari…
So I was so excited about Vic Falls I forgot about the fantastic walking tour we went on a couple of days prior…
Near Livingstone, where we’re staying, there is a small national park that has animals. But instead of being stuck in a truck looking at wildlife from a bus, we were able to walk amongst them a bit. We saw giraffe (I’m not sure why, but I thought they’d be taller!), white rhino (which really aren’t white – they are in fact the same color as black rhino but they have lower mouths then the black ones – and apparently a lot nicer), wildebeest (according to our guide – zebras and wildebeest hang out together because they are a bit vulnerable to big animals – and the “wildebeest migration” that we’ve seen pictures of in national geographic may actually be a zebra migration and the wildebeest follow because apparently the zebras have a better memory?), baboons (the ones we saw in S Africa were black and supposed to be really mean – the ones in Zambia are more tan and just kind of looked at you but didn’t attack), impala (like everywhere), buffalo, zebra (which were smaller than the one that we raced in Namibia) and some other animals that I can’t recall. It was really neat to be within spitting distance of these animals although the majority of them had been “reintroduced” after they had died out/been hunted out. It was kind of sad because there were 5 rhinos and there were only 2 left. 2 of them had died of natural causes and one of them had died of heartbreak. His honey had died and he was sad so he stopped eating. The rhinos have guards during the day because they still poachers and of course we also had one in case something charged.
Anyway, it was a lovely few hours and gave us a “taste” of the wildlife that is in Africa. More in the next country!
Tags: livingstone, RTW Trip, Zambia
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