No hiking necessary today! After (optional) yoga and (not optional) breakfast, we packed up camp and headed downriver from our campsite. Everything from camp was packed onto a gear boat. The raft was loaded down, and it was a feat to ensure that it stayed upright through the rapids today….
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Zambezi II: The Wrath of Nyami Nyami
My Nyami Nyami pendant necklace came untied yesterday. When I took off my life jacket at lunch, I noticed that it wasn’t around my neck anymore. I thought it was gone. But, thankfully, I found it in the lower part of my shirt around my torso. Not wanting to lose…
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🎶 The Time has Come 🎶
It was finally time to load up the rafts and head into the famous whitewater of the Zambezi River! We were transported in the morning from the Old Drift Lodge back to The Lookout Cafe where we had our safety briefing from Stewart, our local rafting trip leader. I would…
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Anniversary #14 on the Zambezi
Another day on the divorce barge – this time, on our anniversary no less! We departed directly from camp this morning, after slight delays due to hippo activity in the water near camp. Damn Billy. When we approached any rapids of significance, the guides got out to scout the line…
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The Divorce Barge on the Upper Zambezi
After breakfast on Monday morning, we all hopped into “the beast” for a hour+ drive through the Zambezi NP to our put in location on the river for the kayaks. We saw zebra along the way, and we quickly realized that long game drives on bumpy roads may not be…
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Border shuffle back to Zimbabwe
The animals greeted us for one last sunrise safari on the Chobe River. No two mornings are the same in the wild! We noticed scratches on the body of a large hippo, and Felix indicated that this was likely from the propeller from a boat. On our return journey to…
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From sunrise to sunset on the Chobe
A sunrise safari requires an early start to the day. While some of our group opted for sleep (a couple of people were experiencing extremely vivid dreams as a side effect of the particular type of anti-malarial medication that most of us were taking), Kurt and I set the alarm…
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Life on the Chobe
Life on the Chobe was pretty simple for us. Maybe not as simple for all of the wildlife though in their daily quest for food/water and safety from predators. Our primary activity was looking for animals via boat safaris from the lodge at sunrise, midday, and sunset with our local…
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Welcome to the Chobe River
We had an early morning on Thursday so that we could catch the first bus from the city center back to the airport in Cape Town. Turns out that we arrived at the airport too early to check in our bags for the flight though, so we had time for…
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Intermission in Cape Town
Cape Town was the transition point between our two grand adventures – hiking in the Alps and whitewater rafting on the Zambezi River. My main goal for these few days was to do laundry, so that we had clean clothes for the next half of our trip. Anything beyond that…