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Sunday, November 15, 2020

SAFARI DRIVES: BOTSWANA, ZAMBIA, AND SOUTH AFRICA


 Our trip to Southern Africa included seven nations, three of which were in Europe (which have different wild animals). When my grandson chose Africa as his trip, I was not sure about it. When I added European stops on the way it complicated it, but all turned out great.

Our African drives are done without guns and with cameras. The idea is to see animals. We soon found that they like to see us too. Check out the zebra on the left. We did a variety of things on this trip. It included a helicopter ride over Victoria Falls and the Zambezi River. We visited a native village and met the workers there. We visited a school where our grandson had a pen-pal and saw their needs for computers and books (we brought school supplies and books with us in their language English). We took an evening cocktail hour cruise on the Zambezi as well as a day cruise on the Chobe. We visited a cheetah rehabilitation reserve. We had safaris out of resorts and out of tents along the Chobe River.

The only problem with an animal is that I got blindsided by a baboon who wanted some cookies.

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