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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