Kalahari
Safari
Cooper. We
just finished an amazing ten-day safari in the Okavango Delta. From Victoria
Falls, we drove to the Botswana border, and met up with our safari guide: Eddy.
Eddy took us to the Chobe River, where we got onto a boat, went out on the
river, and saw our first African animals; lots of hippos, elephants, and buffalo! Afterwards, we got back
into our safari truck and started for our campsite. Once we entered the national park, we saw elephants, giraffes, and
even lions! We arrived at our campsite and watched the beautiful
African sunset.
On our
safari, we saw elephants, hippos, and giraffes every day! We saw lions eight out of our ten days, including cubs! We journeyed along a river in
a wooden canoe-like boat called a Mokoro. The sunset was beautiful every night. We watched it in front
of our campfire until it got dark, and then ate dinner. The breakfasts,
lunches, and dinners were delicious every day. We had steak, pork, bacon, eggs,
hot dogs, pastas, and fruits and veggies. It’s very hard to keep the fruits, veggies and milk
good for the whole ten days. If anyone didn’t know, I love lemons (especially
eating them straight), and they gave lemons at every meal, so that
was awesome.
When we
slept, we weren’t on mats in sleeping bags like we usually are
camping, we were on cots with duvets (but we really didn’t need the duvets, it was hot outside already). In spare time, we all read, and I journaled each day (thank you again Ms. P!). We
woke up at 5:30 am each day for our morning game drive and usually went to bed around 9:30 pm.
At the end
of the safari, we visited and stayed for one night in Maun (ma – own), a small town outside of the national park. We all agreed that we could have done with a seven-day safari instead of ten, but we had a great time.The next day, we took a ten hour drive to a large city called Windhoek (vind – hook), the capital of Namibia.
Here is a wildlife list that I made about the animals we did and didn’t see:
Green = we saw it
Blank (white) = we haven't seen it yet
Here are
some of our favourite pictures from the safari:
Beautiful sunset
Baby hippo yawning
Giraffe family and elephant herd (also a baby elephant)
Please leave comments! We like to read them!
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Click here to see the rest of the pictures from our world trip so far: Trip Photo Album
Click here to see the rest of the pictures from our world trip so far: Trip Photo Album
Incredible pictures. Unbelievably fantastic. We miss you guys, but we do look forward to all the updates. Manus & I can't believe Cooper has a buzz cut! lol ;) xo Fiona is still sleeping (@ 11:40am) so no comment from her. XOXOXO Aunt Marla
ReplyDeleteShort hair helps keep him cool - it's very hot here! (Is Manus still sporting hair that is too LONG?)
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