Blogs from Zambia, Africa - page 13

Geo: -12.8546, 31.311I am sure some pictures can be found for this story. Did our regular walk and the day before Robert had asked Bryan, one of the regular vegetable suppliers if he had any groundnuts. Why, of course, and so Robert asked for a heap. The next day as we were finishing our walk up comes Bryan with two huge bags of groundnuts(peanuts)! Guess we will have plenty to eat when we have sundowners!Lots of animals across the river and in the afternoon there was a large group of elephants that crossed the river from the park side and a couple of the young ones were playing in the river before finally coming to shore. They would stand up and then fall over backwards and then do it again. When they finally got out they ... read more

We have now seen the big three - waterfalls that is. Iguazzu, Victoria and Niagara. Victoria seems to create its own climate. From the hotel we could see the mist rising in the air. We walked down to the falls in brilliant warm sunshine, taking photos as we went particularly of th,many rainbows that seemed to appear and disappear frequently. Suddenly we had to don our ponchos as the water felt like rain falling. It was hard to keep the cameras dry but somehow we managed to take some very unattractive photos of several of us disguised as "drowned rats". Two days later we got some different views of the falls from a helicopter. What an experience. It was a 12 seater. I was strapped in a,,t the side with fellow traveller, Julie and we thought ... read more

Geo: -12.8546, 31.311Still no eland and we stopped and had our nice lunch and then headed out again. Some of the usual repartee between Dora and James about finding some lions and so on. We went by the hot springs. Evidently they used to discharge much more water than is coming out at present but still pretty amazing in the middle of no where there is hot water bubbling up out of a pipe. Robert and James got out and washed their faces and let us take some pictures.Then we found some buffalo and then a larger herd and James is on high alert! Drives to the edge of a riverbank and there are two female lions resting on the sand. One of them has a collar and appears to have been nursing cubs. This is ... read more

Geo: -12.8546, 31.311Back to the camp and fix our dinner for after the sundowner with the lions. As we head out we come across a nice size herd of buffalo moving across the GMA and then we come up on the kill and there are l3 lions there. One of the lions decides to head back into the park. She has to cross the water and in one place it was fairly deep and she is jumping and moving as fast as she can. Look behind her and there is a crocodile swimming toward her. No drama, thankfully!We are watching the pride and Conrad explains that one of them is collared and this is why they know much about them. There is the very old female, Stumpy, so called because she is missing most of her ... read more

Geo: -12.8546, 31.311On the evening drive, it was only the two of us and the father/son from Michigan who had come to this camp after climbing Kilamanjaro. We had some interesting conversation about teaching and some of what he had being doing with Project Luangwa. He had been working with Karen and was a teacher back in Michigan. The first thing we saw were two young male elephants jousting. The big insult is for the victor to place his trunk and tusks on the other ones back. Never saw the final conclusion of the jousting. Saw some nice giraffe, ground hornbills, zebra as we were driving along. Stopped and had our sundowner on the Mushilashi River dry bed. Conrad said that if you dig down into the sand you can find water and this is what ... read more