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Published: October 6th 2008
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Sunrise at camp
This was soooo fun Hello all im sending this early than I fort didn realise i would get internet in the middle of a game park.
Anyway before i start rabbiting mum my fone wont work for this country and maybe the next so i will try and call you wen i can but it prob wun be till Tanzania now so if i cant speak to you have a great bday for you and nan to there should be a card for you in my top draw. No present though. Sorry.
So anyway the last time i wrote i was in Zimbabwe, well that nite we hired out doom buggies which were cool and met sum Zimbabwean business men who took a few of us from the extremes of our bar we was drinkin in to a 5 star luxury resort and casino, I fink they must have spent about $1000 on us all. Was a great nite though playing roulette on sum1 elses money and definately not expected in Zim as it is at the moment.
They next day after about 2hours sleep we crossed the border into Zambia and as soon as we got over we were whisked away
to do white water rafting, now if you want a hangover cure i suggest going over grade 5 rapids with the raft flipping over and chucking you 10ft in the air on the rapids which relentlessly pounded against your body, and what a rush it was, I only got trapped under the water once so it wasnt two bad apart from sum1 on another raft in a diff group that day had to be helicoptered out cos she was blue and could just breath.
Wasnt an extreme activity for the faint hearted especially going over about 25 rapids in the day it was immense, definitely do it again although others felt differently.
They next day to carry on the extremes i went skydiving again this time with the most amazing view over vic falls it was sooo cool and again wat a rush, the only way to then finish the day of course was a booze cruise on the Zambezi river, 3 hours free drink with 23 overlanders on a truck = a very messy nite, with poor renditions of Bohemian rhapsody and wonderwall a mix of very drunk countries doing these songs is not advised.
We have
had a couple of 10 hour drive days which aint nice especially with 40 degree winds blowing into the truck not good, its like an oven in there. But we have reached our destination and as we pulled up there was a group of 5 elephants where we was meant to pitch our tent, this place was gonna be interesting. I went for a walk of about 150meters to a hippo infested lake and was ambushed by monkeys throwing seeds and twigs at me that was funny, the worrying bit is the hippos that can walk up to 1k a nite so we are well within walkin distance as we found last nite, as we are eating a hippo was grazing behind the truck, quite funny really the creature that kills the most people in Africa expect Mossys was about 15meters away from us eating.
So with this there was only 1 fing i could do, I had a few beers and pitched up my mossy net so i was basically open to the elements instead of sleeping in a tent like a normal person. That made it scary when i heard a hippo about 6 meters away from me
at about 3in the morning. Lucky enough he walked the other way but it was a close call, so im gonna pitch my net under the truck 2nite cos they seem to get a bit closer to that but they cant get underneath, although the hyenas that i herd probably could.
So anyway woke up at 6 this morning with elephants in the camp again this time they were walking between the tents and people were still in them, there were a few people darting to the toilet as soon as they got a chance to get out there tent. Gutted i wasnt in mine really, anyway im going on a night game drive 2nite and hopefully mite see a leopard as the guys last nite did, so that could be really cool and that would mean I have seen all the big 5 in one month.
So anyway time to go, so Mum and Nan have a great bday 2morrow and hope to speak to uz soon.
Nex stop Malawi for lots of chillin, drinkin and scuba divin, you no i really hate my life at the moment. : )
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