Greetings from Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.. Following on from our last blog, we spent two days in Chobe national park, Botswana's premier park for elephants. They say there are 40 to 60 thousand, we certainly saw hundreds. Our visit to the park started with a long boat cruise on the Chobe river. This is a beautiful, very wide river and not too deep, great for hippos to walk about in, wallowing and snorting. We saw many – from grandads to little ones, though little hippos still come in the Large size. Also in the river were many elephants, bathing, drinking and, as far as we could tell, larking about, Like the hippos they ranged from huge, ancient bulls to little three week old little chaps. Oh, so sweet. Later, we loaded up a 4x4 to travel into
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