Gifting Africa: MICHAEL - Gifting us ;-)

After finishing step one of the building project I work on in Zambia, we decided to do some gifting for ourselves...

My birthday was the right moment. We started at 5.00h in the morning...drove to the Victoria Falls, parked Angelique and walked down to the boiling pot. There we jumped in rafts and paddled directly under the falls where we got out of the boat. There are rock pools where we swam in. The water comes down 110 meters, more like a huge shower.

Magnificent and exciting and wonderful and and and...the light and the scenery let me feel like being in a sequence of Avatar. Water...bluish light...mist...

Later we went to Livingstone Island where had picnic lunch. certainly after we jumped in Devil´s Pool at the edge of the falls.

The next day we went for a few days to Elephant Valley Lodge, Chobe, Botswana. A quite luxurious tented camp, overlooking a waterhole where the local buffalos, elephants, impalas and so on came for their daily bit of water. We just sat there watching for a long time.

I enjoyed that all very much, especially because we had several boat cruises on the Chobe River and game drives in the park with lots of animals. And so I came to see my first real wild leopard!!!

And some more elephants, buffalos, lions, eagles, hippos, giraffes and warthogs.

Lynette normally prefers something called “walking safari”. There you walk about 5 million kilometres in the boiling sun through either thorny bushes or muddy whatsoevers till you get sore feet and usually after half an hour I´m desperate for a cold beer, a T-bone steak and a pick up helicopter.

This might be the reason, why Lynette doesn´t even think about taking me with on her occasional mountain climbs in Malawi...

Just perfect days...and we have lots of those!

Thank you my love.