Endless Summer Tiny World

So the safari has been extremely awesome so far! i have met some great friends and we have clicked so well only after 6 days! and the worst part  is that i have to say bye to all but 2 of them! it was a sad farewell this morning! The last couple days have been pretty great! A couple days ago we took a tour on the Chobe River at sunset and it was absolutely amazing!! We saw a group of about 9 elephants, babies, moms and dads, that all came down to the river for a drink and a mudbath, the baby was even rolling around in the mud. This was then followed up by a family of Rhinos – baby, mom and dad-  all strolling out of the water.  And then followed by an amazing sunset!

We then spent a day crossing a river to Zambia – this ferry takes forever and seems like its going to break down. It also doesnt help that the workers take bribes to get trucks on first. Luckily we got there early and was only about a 2 hour wait or so.  We are now in Victoria Falls and yesterday spent the day watching people and some of my friends bungi jumping (no I wasn’t crazy enough to jump) and then took a really short helicopter over the falls. The water is super high so the falls are at their prime and it is so cool!!  Tomorrow will be a trip to the falls to walk in front and on top of them and then Saturday we head north to continue our trip towards Nairobi.

So I have been on an overland tour for about 3 days now with amazing people, ther are 11 of us including our guides! For now our guides are biggie, Paul our driver, and angus the regional manager training Paul,the rest of the characters are: matt, the pretty eye candy from Australia, Joe the cooky hilarious guy from Australia, Howard the guy who us too much older than us and terrible with one liners, Diana the youngest sweetest innocent girl from Australia, Bridget and kat the sisters from new Zealand, Catherine the kinda crazy new zealander and me! It’s really great! Yesterday we went through a safari of Kruger national park and it was amazing! We saw elephants, giraffes, rhinos, warthogs, lions, impala and loads of others!!! It was really awesome!! The last two days we were driving to and through Botswana and today we are staying at. Place called elephant sands… Ther is a huge watering hole right outside the bar and within 5 minutes of being here there was a huge elephant at the watering hole drinking and throwing water on itself! It was amazing… We’ve also seen a family of elephants tonight and the nights not nearly over! It’s amazing! And I’m loving being in safari!!! Keep in touch!!

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