26 December 2008

A month in bullet points

While I promised I would put up more stuff from the last month, I am feeling quite lazy so you'll have to make do with some notes and photos. Maybe once I take that voluntary separation I'll put some more in, but for now, enjoy!

Zambia

  • Great Thanksgiving in Lusaka - turkey, stuffing sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie!
  • Timebus (because there are non-time based busses) to Livingstone breaking down
  • Zambian side of Vic Falls - walking on the falls, water raising, wading back

Zimbabwe

  • 100,000,000,000 Zimbabwe Dollar note (thats 100 billion)
  • Bringing food into Zim - bread and cheese for five meals
  • Lion Walk
  • Rafting, swimming, hike up 1,000 ft canyon walls
  • Zimbabwe side of Vic Falls - much bigger, rainbows

Botswana

  • Border: shoe disinfectant and condoms
  • Chobe - 100's of elephants, surrounding the truck, dousing themselves with mud, 2 day old baby, kudu, crocs, eagles, lilac breasted rollers, carpet of green, fresh downy smell, campfire, stars, black backed jackals, bacon
  • Hammock at the camp
  • River / booze cruise - tons of hippos
  • 4am wakeup, Maun for supplies, passing time - name the states, name the countries in africa, name the 4 letter countries, name the countries that end in L
  • Okavango - hot! poled in mokoros (canoes), hammock, water polo, pointless walks, marshmallows, passing time, hippo yawn, rain, thunder, lightning, 2 by 2, jingle bells, rudolph, angels, waltzing
  • Volleyball and NARB

Namibia

  • Big night at Thebe, big beers, shots, tending bar, late night swimming
  • Etosha - nice campsites, springboks plonking, giraffes humping, rhino, massive cloud to cloud lightning, lions roaring
  • Nice campsite with grass, singing xmas songs in the rain, then in the women's bathroom, then at the bar, getting yelled at by Hans
  • Cheetah park - petting cheetahs, pet giraffe, feeding wild ones, cheetahs screeching, cricket, cool bar with animals skulls and skins
  • Spitzkoppe - neat granite rocks in scrubland, looked like US southwest, incredible sunset, punch party, cave, sleeping ont he mountain, windy, drunk, perishing
  • Swakopmund - don't remember drive, eating oryx and kudu, weird German town, sidewalks, streetlights, strasses, fishing barracuda, exhausting, rush when catching one, blue shark chasing a caught fish, quad biking, semi autos, up to 80kphs, rollercoasting dunes, peeking over the top, absolute beauty with sand and blue sky and ocean, great time
  • Uneventful day in Windhoek

South Africa

  • Wandering Capetown - streetsigns and points of interest, pedestrian streets, reconciliation day parade, chilling in the watefront, sushi! watching the clouds over table mountain and street performers, completely overwhelmed in pick-n-pay, bagels!
  • Wine tour - 4 wineries, sparkling, brandy, party in the bus back, blackout
  • Camps bay, 1kg sushi for R100, bus tour
  • 4:30am pickup for shark dive, chum, bait, decoy, freezing water, thinking what the hell am I doing here, 7mm wetsuits, finally seeing one, huge and looking at me, as we were leaving "shark on bait", june is best time
  • Dinner and drinking with ATC
  • 6:30 for hike up table mountain, didn't happen, took cable car, fog lifting
  • Ocean basket seafood platter
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And I'll close it out with a few funny signs / shirts that I saw:

  • On a lost and found board: "I've lost my grilled cheese sandwich, please call 032-554-0922" complete with picture
  • On a restaurants front door: "Good news, we actually serve food and drinks, so there is no need to bring your own"
  • Someone's uniform in Capetown's waterfront: "Trolley Management Services"

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